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CONTENTS
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 5, MAY 1993
FEATURES
The Great Manipulators
By Derek Grime l>0
[mage-processing software is often the key to
great computer graphics. AW surveys the
three leading contenders — ADPro. Imagemas-
lei , and Image I-'X — to compare their features
and effects, strengths and weaknesses, image
formats supported, and value lor cost.
Graphics . . . with Flair!
By Fred Hurleau 36
Try this nifty recipe for spicing up ordinary
graphics or run-of-the-mill digitized images.
Our hands-on tutorial will show you how to
use outline posterization techniques with any
of seven popular linage-processing tools to
create snazzv-lookins? effects.
ARTICLES
The AW Amiga Fonts Buyer's
Guide— Part 1: DTP Fonts
B\ Jeff Evans 4o
Pari 1 of our two-pan guide gives you the
complete low-down on the rapidly increas-
ing [lumber of high-quality outline fonts
available for Amiga desktop publishing,
display, or any other prim-output purpose.
Next month: Video Fouls.
Digging in to DOS — 7
By Sheldon Leemon 49
Our mini-series on getting the most out of
release 2 of AmigaUOS concludes this
month with a look at features of Workbench
2.0's new Commodities programs designed
to save you lime and effort.
COLUMNS
Editor's Drawer By Dennis Brisson . . 6
With graphics in the Forefront of this
month's issue, the editor's done a bit of
research to find advice for those aspiring to
potential careers in the graphic-arts fields.
Accent on Graphics
By Joel Hagen fat
You don'i have lo be in the publishing
business to discover why Joel's specialized
D I P projects ibis month can be useful — or
just plain fun — for artist or amateur alike.
You nmld think of (host corny but wonderful
werewolf transformations in Hollywood horror
classics as the slate of the art in image manipula-
tion during the '40s and '50s, Bui Amiga image-
processing software in the '90s has taken the art
to a state of sophistication unimaginable even a
fnt< years ago: From melt-downs to morphs and
water-drops to warps — the dazzling impact and
sheer variety of special effects is mind-boggling.
So get ready for a special shin! on Amiga graph-
ics this month as we lake a guided tour of image-
processing programs and techniques!
Video Suite
By Steve Gillmor 64
New products on the Amiga audio front can
help vou integrate sound and music more
easily — and professionally — in your video
post-production work.
DEPARTMENTS
Overscan 8
The latest news, new products, and I'D
offerings from all over die Amiga world.
AW Product
Information.
92
To contact the vendors of products men-
tioned in this issue o£AmigaWorld, consult
our all-in-one "Manufacturers*/
Distributors' Addresses" list.
Help Key 84
Next time you feel a breakdown coming on,
try Tim's couch for some free analysis and
advice.
The Last Word 96
We always save the best for last: reader
response right here each month.
REVIEWS
AmigaVision Professional
(CBM) If)
Plenty of new features plus a distributable
player in this multimedia-authoring up-
grade.
One-Stop Music Shop
(Blue Ribbon Soundworhs) 17
Sound sampler, MIDI interface, and a host
of useful utilities all in one package.
ImageFX (GVP) 19
Powerful image processor with built-in
morphing.
DirectoryOpus 4.0
(INOVAtronics) 22
The popular directoiy utility adds a slew or
newly enhanced features,
Address-It! (Legendary Design) 26
Economical, easy-to-use list manager.
GAMES
Crib Notes By Peter Olafson 68
This month.-IIpA- gamesmeister finishes his
journey through the secrets of Konami's
Lure of the Temptress.
Epic (Ocean) and Wing
Commander (Mindscape Int'l) 68
Two bang-up, action-packed space-combat
offerings with gorgeous graphics and great
musical flair.
Short Takes 76
Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. This
month: AGA versions of Zool, L'Chess, and
Giger-Tetris; 'flic Addams Family: Populous
II — The Challenge Gaines; Tracon II data
disks; Ashes of Empire; Megatraveller II —
Quest for the Ancients,
COVER IMAGE BY R. MOERISS, NOODLE RANCH, 1993
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: ORIGINAL COURTESY OF BETTMAN ARCHIVE
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DRAWER
Some expert advice for budding computer artists who seek to
enhance their Amiga interests and talents.
Educating Amiga Artists
HOW DO YOU become a successful
compute]- graphics artist? It's a question
on the minds of many AmigaWorld read-
ers considering an education and career
in computer art and animation. More
than a few interested readers have asked
me which courses of study and which
schools are best, what careers are avail-
able, and how to go about securing a
position in the computer art field.
Lacking answers, I turned to the
experts — successful professionals who
use the Amiga — who provided useful
insights and valuable advice.
Recommended Study
Many schools offer a variety of high-
quality computer programs, as well as
degrees in computer visual arts, for
aspiring computer artists.
It wasn't always the case. Bruce El-
liott, art dept. head at Gcrmaniown
Academy (Fort Washington, l'A), notes
that when he started using his Amiga —
six vears ago — "it was impossible to find
college programs drat offered a sound
foundation of courses for the computer
artist or art teacher. All I could do at
that time was teach myself. . ."
Many college programs now exist that
teach basic drawing, painting and de-
sign, as well as computing applications,
computer graphics and animation, and
video/TV production. "litis is due, in
part, to an increased realization of the
computer's role as a critical tool for
image creation and manipulation.
"Hie experts I contacted unanimously
recommended that college students
become well-grounded in traditional art
skills and design basics, as well as gener-
al computer ability. "Get a solid founda-
tion in traditional art skills while vou
pursue computers as a medium," sug-
gests Joel Hagen, AWs long-standing
graphics columnist and college arts and
animation instructor in California.
But also, it is important to develop
other skills — from basic math and sci-
ence to creative writing to drafting —
that could be applied to your career. An
interdisciplinary approach, allowing you
to combine your study of computer
graphics with other courses, is best.
Phil Fitzpatrick, associate professor of
art at Lamar University (Beaumont, TX),
advises, "Take a broad base of subjects;
[don't] focus entirely on computers or
computer graphics. " He recommends
complementing your study of computer
art with "courses that teach thinking,
creativity, and communications, which
are fundamental to any type of visual
imaging or communications."
In the world of computer art, it's best
to maintain an open and creative mind
and be prepared for anything, warns
Fitzpatrick. "People will ask you to do
the strangest sorts of things and assume
that you know how!"
Rick Manasa, who selves as an Amiga
consultant in audio-video and educa-
tional applications in Michigan, pro-
poses that artists also develop some
business, accounting, and communica-
tion skills. ".Ml people in graphics and
animation need good communication
skills to be able to translate producer
and client desires into reality."
Which System to Buy?
It should come as no surprise that the
folks 1 queried overwhelmingly cited the
Amiga as the most affordable, and
easiest computer to use for animation
and desktop video. In addition, how-
ever, students should become familiar
with other platforms (e.g., PCs, Macs,
and Silicon Graphics workstations).
Each platform has its merits. Jeff
James, a student at Colorado State
University (Fort Collins, CO), urges: "It
never pays to criticize someone for his
or Iter choice of computing machinery.
Starting an argument with a potential
employer over which computer is better
is a sure way to be taken out of consid-
eration for the job."
In the pursuit of a computer art de-
gree, your focus should be on art, not
computer, according to Michael Han-
ish, an instructor for the Arts Institute of
Vermont, "lire hard part . . .will be in
figuring out what to do rather than how
to do it. I strongly feel that form and
technique must be a servant to content.
Computers are tools with a purpose —
whether it be aesthetic, educational, or
practical."
Jobs
If you have the education and/or the
experience, how will you parlay your
skills into a job? There's no easy answer,
but the experts agree that talented
artists are in high demand in the tradi-
tional fields of film, advertising, publish-
ing, and television, and these opportu-
nities will continue to expand.
Designers are well-suited for CAD
applications in drafting, architecture,
industrial design, mechanical engineer-
ing, and textile design. Multimedia
production for training, education, and
business is also a growing field.
"Today, the opportunities are almost
endless . . . from designing artwork for
computer games to rendering special
effects for sci-fi films. Many of the na-
tion's largest traditional animation
houses — such as Disney, whose latest
film. Aladdin, features computer-gener-
ated imagery — are using increased
amounts of computer animation in their
productions," states Jeff James.
Ingenuity, timing and perseverance
are key. Computer artists are needed in
many fields, including advertising, com-
munications, and education, but ulti-
mately, as the computer animation mar-
ket evolves, you could find yourself
creating and defining your own position.
"There are new opportunities in areas
that have only recently developed an
acute awareness of the computer as an
image-making device (e.g., law. medi-
cine, education and industrial training
services)," adds Fitzpatrick.
Continued on p. 92.
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OVERSCAN
News, New Products and Networks
Amiga Summit Takes World View
ORLANDO, FLORIDA— This year's
Amiga Developers' Conference was the
first to bring together Amiga program-
mers, engineers, and marketing reps
from both sides of the Atlantic. Noi sur-
prisingly, the late-winter event was also
die largest DevCon to dale. More than
400 industry insiders — from the US,
Canada, and 1 1 European countries —
gathered to attend seminars conducted
by Commodore's Engineering, CATS
(Commodore Applications and Techni-
cal Support), and Sales divisions.
Fueled by the recent release of the
AGA-based A4000 and Al 200. the mood
was optimistic. The first of" the 40 ses-
sions outlined Commodores technical
development and marketing philoso-
phies, directions, and strategies. The
bulk, however, focused on specific issues
such as digital-signal processing, retar-
gettable graphics, and, yes, future chip
sets. Although attendees are under
nondisclosure concerning specifics, we
can assure you that Commodore is plan-
ning big for the future of Amiga.
While the amount of material present-
ed was immense — backed by 700 pages
and lour disks of documentation — atten-
dees still found time for socializing and
showing off. As always, the computer
room was crowded well into the wee hours
of the following morning on Developers'
Showcase evening. 'Hie annua! "I'll show
you mine if you show me yours" session
was further enlivened by a number of in-
teresting European products, from
graphics boards to shareware.
The five-day program was capped off
by the 1992 Developers' Choice Awards
Luncheon. Enthusiasm for the A4000
was clear here, as the machine itself
picked up the Best Hardware award,
and its AmigaDOS Release 3 operating
system received Best User Interface
honors. Other winners included SAS In-
stitute's SAS/C6.0 (Best Professional
Productivity Software), Electronic Arts"
DeluxePaint IV (Best Consumer Pro-
ductivity Software), Software Toolworks"
Miracle Piano Teaching System (Best
Education Software), and 21st Century
Entertainment's Pinball fantasies (Best
Entertainment Software). Hardware de-
signer Brad Carvey of NewTek had the
crowd eating out of his hand after his
thank-you speech following the Video
Toaster's induction into the Amiga 1 1 all
of Fame.
— Linda Laflamme
"AW Right! " Said Fred
PETERBOROUGH, NH— Drivers, divers,
doves, and dynamite. These are just some
of the subjects depicted in Amigamations —
the video containing the 20 winningest en-
tries from AmigaWorld's Third Annual Ani-
mation Contest.
When 17 AmigaWorld and Desktop
Video World staffers gathered to judge
each of the 20 finalists in four areas (sound,
graphics, storyline, and originality), fellow
New Hampshirite Mark Thompson handily
floated away with first place and a grand
prize of over $12,000 in Amiga gear for his
4 1/2-month exercise in subtle 3-D render-
ing of One Stormy Night With Fred Floaty.
Resplendent in his LightWave 2.0-cured
polymers, Fred, a cheap inflatable toy, ex-
periences a daydream so exciting it nearly
bursts his Latex lining.
Noted animator Dr. Eric Fleisher gave
Fred tough competition with Commuter
Chip, the second-place winner. The good
doctor's animation depicts a society in
which 3-D computers reign supreme. See
Fab Fred finishes first.
computer chips commute to work. See
them master manufacturing processes. Will
their efficiency improve their quality of life?
Who cares? After all, they're just computer,
er, commuter chips.
Bob Eaton captured third place honors
with The Sculptor, in which a strange 3-D
creature begins sculpting with traditional
manual tools but soon switches to high ex-
plosives. When the dust settles, a resulting
sculpture bears the remarkable likeness
of. ..could it be...?
Matt McDonald and Mark Miller pushed
the envelope of technical and artistic inno-
vation to claim fourth place with the 3-D
epic Life. |A still from this animation ap-
peared on AmigaWorld's February cover.)
Fifth place went to the Toronto-based duo
Rob Currie and Phil Maeers for the politi-
cally-inspired Mouse/and, a 2-D dynamo.
Other animators whose work appears on
the tape are Dennis Schaeffer, Tony Goskie,
Randy Wall, Bo Feng, David Smalley, Dan
Wilcox, Dan Ritchie, Alan Price, Tracy Sabin,
Jun Whang, Otto von Ruggins, Dave
Woodard, and Chuck Wardin
Choosing the winner was far from easy,
as all the pieces are strictly top-notch. And
choosing the 'Top 20" among the hundreds
of entries was no easier. This contest gave
AmigaWorld the chance to witness first
hand how creative and technically excellent
Amiga animation has become. Thanks to all
who participated. — Tim Walsh
To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 92.
8 May 1993
SCALA
Everybody's talking multimedia revolution.
Allow us to light the fuse.
A lot of apples were bruised
when we first introduced
Scala, the professional pres-
entation package.
With the new Scala
MultiMedia MM200, they
will be blown into oblivion!
Let us introduce a few of the
features that make Scala
MM200 combined with the
Amiga the world's most
powerful multimedia
environment:
(^ Scala EX
A revolutionary new plug &
play system, for the inte-
gration of laserdisk, still
video, MIDI, or CDTV sound
in your Scala presentation.
Extra EX'es, such as 24 bit
graphic support and VCR
control are also available.
| Scala Wipes
More than 80 amazing,
smooth and professional
transitions provide possi-
bilities previously unseen on
the Amiga.
Scala Sound
Enhance your presentations
with voice-over, music and
special sound effects! Scala
offers total control of
recording and play-back.
\1K$r Scala Shuffler
Instant viewing of your
whole presentation! You can
see up to 112 pages at one
time. Simply shuffle them
around with the mouse!
f% Scala Snapload
A series of advanced tech-
niques make Scala load and
display pictures and anima-
tions faster than any other
package!
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Creating interactive hotspots
has never been so easy! Scala
MM200 even includes full
support of variables.
Scala LINGUA
The multimedia language
Lingua with its close link to
ARexx puts the advanced
user in total control!
AnimLab
With this bonus program you
can make your animations
play up to four times faster!
The press writes:
"The word multimedia has
been battered and misused...
Scala on the other hand,
know exactly what multi-
media is and what to do with
it!" Amiga User International (UK)
"...the best program in show
business." Amiga Format (UK)
"Scala MM200 is the kind of
software that many serious
users simply cant't afford to
be without." Amiga Computing (UK)
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business presentations, inter-
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Why make it harder?
V E R 8 C A \
Amiga Graphic Garners Gold
Magazine and Bookseller magazine re-
cently awarded . I nogaWortd'i 1992 Special
Issue first place in the Computer Magazine
category of its annual cover competition.
Created entirely on the Amiga using prod-
ucts from Impulse and ASDG, Tim Wil-
son's 3-D image wowed judges and out-
placed PC Computing and PC World
magazines, which took second and third
places, respectively.
The cover image represents the talents
of many folks. Congratulations are due not
only to Mr. Wilson for the stunning ren-
dering, but also to Howard Happ for his
excellent art direction, Lou Wallace for
technical assistance, and finally to Roger
Goode, the person who captured our
imaginations with his Terminator 2-in-
spired concept.
Silver man takes the Gold award.
Here's Your Change
If A-Talk is the program you use to
speak up on line, you should know that
developer Felsina Software has retak-
en its telecommunications package from
New Horizons Software, which previ-
ously sold and marketed it. To talk
tin key about A-Talk in the future, con-
tact Felsina directly, (RS# 126.)
Even if you can't stand modern art,
you may like the most modern Art Ex-
pressions ($249, Soft-Logik). Release
1.02 improves many features of the
original release. Soft-Logik has rewrit-
ten its Preferences printing routines
{which were a problem in the first re-
lease), and has polished Adobe Illus-
trator and IFF 2R2D support. If you
haven't sent in your registration card
yet, do so now; Soft-Logik will send
registered owners not only the update
disk but also font and clip-art disks.
(RS# 127.)
A Handful of Color
While there's no shortage of mono-
chrome hand scanners on the market
these days, Migraph is the first to put
color scanning in the palms of Amiga
users. Using the same four-inch wide
scanning head of other hancl-helds, the
CS-6000 recognizes and scans up to
262,144 colors in five color modes (su-
per color, 4096-color, gray-scale, mono-
chrome dither halftone, and mono-
chrome line art/text), at six resolutions
from 50-400 dots per inch. It offers true
gray-scale scanning with 64 grav levels at
200 dpi.
Features include a stop/start scanning
switch and adjustable brightness control.
The unit works with Workbench 1 ,3 and
up, and supports the AGA chips of the
AI200andA4000.
Until April 30, you can purchase the
CS-6000 direct from Migraph (suggest-
ed retail price is $549) for $399. This
offer includes free software upgrades
through June 30. (RS# 125.)
Reader Michael Hache re-
cently expressed concern about
the focus of this column, which
was originally conceived to list
freely distributable .Amiga soft-
ware. Rest assured that you will
see more of popular Amiga PD
files — with pauses for effect. Af-
ter one such pause this issue, I'll
hit the bricks next month with
new-file news.
While this column discusses
various on-line offerings, it
rarely mentions my primary use
of the nets: e-mail.
AmigaWorld relies on e-mail
not only for transferring manu-
script and image files, but also
for monitoring the pulse of the
Amiga community and, perhaps
ON-LINE
SCAN „
most importantly, for gelling
reader feedback.
We editors tap into all the
major networks that attract Ami-
ga users. You can reach us on
GEnie, CompuServe, Portal,
and BIX — either individually or
by way of AmigaWorld areas.
BIX has reserved an area in
our name (number 12 on the
Amiga. Exchange menu) for a
couple of years. You can also
contact me direct!)' through BIX
via my handle nvalsh@BIX.com
or simply twalsh.
AmigaWorld maintains an
area on Portal as well. After log-
ging on, just enter: "GO AMI-
GA; 3; 1." You'll see our area is
broken down into smaller sub-
Tim Walsh
sections, each with its own head-
ing. My own Usenet address
through Portal is timwalsh@
cup.portal.com.
While the editors occasional-
ly post messages in these areas
to solicit feedback, we mainly
scan for messages and respond
to them. Feel free to use these
forums to tell us what you like or
don't like about AmigaWorld,
and to let us know which issues
and products you'd like to see us
cover. Any message you post will
make the office airwaves, and
may well prompt discussion
among other readers.
White AmigaWorld has no des-
ignated area on either Com-
puServe or GEnie, you're apt to
bump into one of us on those
nets, too. To e-mail me on Com-
puServe, use the account num-
ber 76376,2137. With reserva-
tions about breaking all e-mail
delivery records, my address on
GEnie is t.walshO.
So. the next time you're on
line, be sure to direct your ques-
tions, comments, and messages
to us. We'd sure like to hear
from you!
BIX
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614/457-0802
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GEnie
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Bring Home The Best
'foftf&r
Cljiemalu Quality Visual Eff KIS
If you're thinking about getting an Amiga
special effects or image processing
product, here are some facts to consider:
• ASDG's Art Department Professional
was named the "Best Image Processing
Program" for 1 992 by the readers of
Amazing Computing Magazine and "Best
Video Software" by Germany's Amiga Plus
Magazine.
• American Software And Hardware
Distributors and MicroPace Distributors
(the two largest Amiga' software
distributors in North America) cite ADPro
and MorphPlus as the best selling
products of their kind.
• ADPro placed third among ALL Amiga'
software products on the MicroPace
1992 Top 50 Sellers List.
• The Post Group, one of the largest post
production houses in the world, has used
ADPro and MorphPlus in the production
of special effects for the prime time TV
show Quantum Leap and for major
motion pictures.
• Mark Swain, an AmigaWorld
reviewer (and animator for Foundation
Imaging, the creators of the special
effects for Babylon 5), said, "MorphPlus
produces the most realistic shape
shifting special effects I have ever seen
on a desktop."
• David Duberman, Executive Editor
of Video Toaster User, said in a
comparative review of Amiga"
morphing products, "MorphPlus is the
Rolls Royce of Amiga' morphing
software... it will pay for itself with one
job."
Consider the facts.
Then bring home the best.
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Ciao, Amiga!
Amiga artists have always made an im-
pressive showing in the Italian BitMovie
computer graphics and animation corn-
Antonio Oe Lorenzo's 3-D work won the
hearts of BitMovie '92 judges.
V E R S C A \
petitions. The latest was no exception.
While Italian-language fluency is required
to discern the finer points of the new
brochure announcing BitMovie '92 win-
ners, no special skills are needed to see
that 17 of the 18 top 2-D animations and
2 1 of the top 25 3-D animations are Ami-
ga generated. The still-image category
winners list Spans several pages, but just
one of those listed on the first two pages
is a Mac creation; the other nine are Ami-
ga works. Among the US Amiga artists on
the winners rosier are Man' Mcjohnson,
Eric Schwartz, and Bill Graham.
BitMovie '93 will take place April 8- 1 2
in Riccione, Italy. For details, contact
Carlo Mainardi, Via Bologna 13, 47036
Riccione, Italy; fax: 39/0541-601962.
A1200 or Bust
Where's an Amiga 1200 owner to go for
machine-specific information and prod-
ucts? Right here!
GVP's new A1230 Turbo is a 40 MHz
68030 accelerator that fits inside the ex-
pansion bay on the bottom of the comput-
er. Two SIMM sockets allow you to add
RAM to suit your needs: Use 4MB SIMMs
for up to 8MB of 32-bit wide 60ns DRAM, or
use 16MB chips for up to 32MB. A Floating
Point Unit (FPU) socket lets you add a co-
processor to speed math-intensive opera-
tions. Populated with 1MB RAM, the board
sells for S499. (RS# 132.)
Af icroBotics offers some of the same op-
tions with its MBX 1200z, which installs in-
ternally onto the A1200's bus connector.
The board provides an FPU and a real-time
clock/calendar, and accepts one 32-bit
SIMM chip of one, two, four, or eight
megabytes of RAM. The board comes with
diagnostic software and costs S189 without
memory. (RS# 133.)
Beginners might benefit from the Al 200
Insider Guide, which goes for £14.95 from
British publisher Bruce Smith Books (ISBN
1-873308-15-9). In 24 chapters, the book
touches on Workbench 3.0, utilities. Pref-
erences, and AmigaDOS via tutorials.
(RS# 134.)
Improving Toaster
Character
"Your Toaster will never be the samel"
says Imwvision Technology. The firm's new
Montage ($499.95) promises professional-
quality text display, DVE transition se-
quencing, and 16-million color graphics
output — plus the ability to integrate
smoothly into the Toaster environment.
Innovative character-generation is at the
heart of Montage. The program's typefaces
offer real-time click-and-drag font scaling,
and high-level antialiasing for an effective
one-nanosecond resolution. Montage's
eight master character sets include sym-
bols and international characters, and for
increased flexibility, the program loads
Toaster, Chroma, and Amiga font formats.
Montage also imports and exports image
files in IFF and framestore formats, and its
ability to display 24-bit graphics on the
Toaster's framebuffers allows for such ap-
plications as compositing multiple images
with variable translucency blending. The
program can generate full-color gradient
spreads, instant beveled boxes, and em-
bossed wallpaper patterns. Its sequencing
capabilities let you automate Toaster Switch-
er functions for multiple event playback, and
you can apply any Toaster DVE to Montage
titles, framestores, or video sources.
Montage can calculate directly in D2
framestore format for improved signal
quality and display speed. What's more, its
drivers can improve the quality of the
Toaster encoder's video output, and an op-
tional NTSC can reduce dot crawl and ring-
ing artifacts. (RS# 128.)
OVERHEARD
It's time for spring cleaning in West
Chester, and Commodore hopes to
move products out of its warehouse by
polishing prices on several pre-AGA
products. The largest savings are avail-
able on (he most powerful machines;
you can save over S3000, for instance,
on an A3000 Tower with a 68040
processor, 200MB hard drive, and 5MB
RAM. Thai model. AMOOT-40/200, is
now S2875; other ASOOOs sell at signif-
icant savings, loo. At the other end nf
the stale, an A2000 bundled with a
1084S monitor is now S1299 (a S240
savings), and CDTV carries a suggest-
ed price of S599 (a S400 cut). Likewise,
CBM has trimmed the ticket on its
A2630/4 68030 accelerator board from
$1799 to $1299. (RS# 124.)
Mark Your Calendar!
Take a peek at the latest in Amiga
technology! Here's the most recent list-
ing of shows for the upcoming months.
For information on registration, confer-
ences, seminars, and workshops please
call the number provided.
NCGA '95
April 27-29
Philadelphia Civic Center
Philadelphia. PA
800/225-6242
AMIJAM '93
May 14-15
Southern Alberta Institute
of Technology
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
403/270-0270
Image World Dallas
July 18-15
Infomart
Dallas. TX
800/800-5474
More Control
German developer Phase 5 Digital
Products wants to send your files careen-
ing through your data bus with its Fast-
Lane Z3 DMA hard-drive controller. The
board's 32-bit Zorro-3 interface allows it
to work with both the A3000 and A4000.
Employing the new SCSI-1! standard to
speed data transfer, it represents a real al-
ternative to the A4000's integrated IDE
controller.
Besides hard-drive control, the board of-
fers memory-expansion options — up to
64MB — with 32-bit wide autoconfiguration.
(RS# 129.)
12 May 1993
Aljabcan and
AlfaScan-Plus
400 DPI Hand Scanner
256 Grayscale
Conversion Software
Regular version includes New Scan&Save Plus V1 .76-V.
Plus version includes Touch Up V3.07-V.
Both models include:
• Merge II VI, 4
■ Alfascale scanning conversion scale
- Cartridge, Interface and Power Adaptor
Desktop Publishers and Video Professionals can produce
24 bit IFF and TIFF 256 Grayscale files with (he
included software. When used with
products like Pixel
3D Professional
from Axiom
Software,
generating high tech
3D logos from printed
materials becomes
easy, productive and
profitable.
AlfaPower
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External IDE Hard Drive and 8 MegaByte Ram Expansion for your
Amiga 500
■ Solid metal case
■ RAM expandable to 2, 4, 6 or 8MB
• Holds one 3.5" or two 2.5" HD(s)
- Includes all cables, screws and
software
■ Autoboot, a|
states
■ Separati
switches
and RZ-Hdisable
Pre-configured systems with hard drive
and ram installed are available, Plug an
AlfaPower into your Amiga 500's expansion port and increase your performance and
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3 Button Crystal Trackball for any model of
Amiga Computer ^^^^
■ Top quality construction with opto-
mechanical encoder
■ Two-color shining Crystal Ball
• Auto-fire button & key-lock function switch
■ Long 6+ foot cord for convenient
placement
If you are looking for a productive alternative
to standard mouse input, an Alfadata
trackball is the answer to your needs.
Effortless finger-tip operation and reliable
micro-switch buttons.
Product Description MSRP
AlfaRAM-0 External A500 8MB Ram Expansion, expandable to 2, 4, 6 or 8MB - chassis is similar to AlfaPower (above) S1 49.95
AlfaRAM600-2 2MB AlfaRAM600 PCMCIA card provides 2 MegaBytes Fast Ram for Amiga 1 200 or 600 $1 99.95
AlfaRAM600-4 4MB AlfaR AM600 PCMCIA card provides 4 MegaBytes Fast Ram for Amiga 1 200 or 600 $349.95
FDD-M312 External 3,5" 880K Floppy Drive with pass-through drive connector and on/off switch for all Amigas $139.95
RA2-8M-0 Low cost 8 MegaByte RAM expansion card for the A2000, expandable to 2, 4, 6 or 8MB - OK installed $149.95
RA5-4M-0 Amiga 500 4 MegaByte RAM expansion card includes set-up, RAM test software and on/off switch cable $1 39.95
RA5-51 2K Amiga 500 51 2K RAM expansion module (501 -style) with Real Time Clock and on/off switch cable S69.95
RA6-1 M Amiga 600 1 MegaByte RAM expansion device with Real Time Clock and Memory Enable Link $99.95
SWB-M-BT Floppy drive boot selector for Amiga 500 or 2000 - boot from drive(s) other than DF0: $39.95
SWB-M-KS+ Auto Kickstart Switch Plus for Amiga 500 or 2000 - allows convenient switching between 1 .3 and 2.0 ROMs $39.95
SWB-M-KS6 Amiga 600 Auto Kickstart Switch - allows users to easily switch back to 1 .3 ROMs for extra compatibility $49.95
AlfaOptic 3 Button 300 DPI Optical Mouse - comes with optical mouse pad - Note: 3rd button is active $79.95
AlfaPen 3 Button Optical Pen with pad - allows comfortable Pen-style mouse input with high resolution accuracy $99.95
CLM-MT "High tech" infra-red 3 Button Cordless Mouse with receiver/charging stand, mouse pad and power supply $99.95
OMM-MT 2 Button Mouse with mouse pad, holder and extra long cord - excellent replacement mouse for all Amigas $59.95
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OpalVision's state-of-the-art modular design gives you unequalled versatility. Start with the OpalVision Main Board and
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The OpalVision Main Board
A true 24-Bit frame buffer and display device with 16.8 million colors
available for every pixel and a maximum resolution of 768 x480 (580 PAL).
An internal card, it operates automatically in NTSC or PAL mode in any
Amiga computer with a video slot (including the Amigo 4000). It's powerful
VLSI graphics coprocessor enables stencil modes, a host of transition effects
and smooth, hardware-controlled priority switching and scrolling/panning
effects. The board's state-of-the-art design allows smooth fading of pictures.
color-cycling effects, and smooth, double-buffered 24-Bit animation. Includes
connectors for all of the optional OpalVision components.
The OpalVision Video Processor
Plug this card into the OpalVision Main Board and add a wealth of additional
features and functionality. It's a high-quality, real-time 24-Bit framegrabber
which doesn't require a time-base corrector. And, it's a professional-quality
genlocker with chroma and luma keying. The 256-level linear transparency
key allows the definition of transparency between two live video sources on a
pixel-by-pixel basis for smooth vignettes, anti-aliased text and super-smooth
effects. The Video Sandwich key allows you to insert chroma or lumo keyed video
between definable foreground and background layers of a 24-Bit image. It also
provides real-time color processing of live video and an unlimited number of transitions
and Digital Video Effects using the included OpalVision Roaster Chip and software. These
include cuts, wipes, fades, and special organic effects (soft- or hard-edged), plus an infinite
range of flips, tumbles, picture-in-picture, page peels and image wrapping.
24-bit real-time frameg robbing from
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Opal Roaster Chip creates unlimited
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• 256-level "Alpha Channel" (transparency) key.
• 24-bil, 35ns character generation software
• 24-Bit Picture-in-Picture and Video Sandwich Keying
Included Software;
• Opal Character Generator
• Special Effects Manager
• OpalVision System Software
Inputs/Outputs;
• 1 Composite in/out
• I S-Video in/out (S-VHS, HI-6, Y/C)
• 1 expansion connector for Video Suite
• I RGB out via DB-23 connector
Alpha Channel functions with
OpalPaint and with the Video
Processor for transparency overlays.
The OpalVision Video Suite
A power-packed video and audio mixing, switching, and transcoding device. This 19-inch, rack mountable unit is so advanced that it has its
own internal computer and every aspect is software-controlled for precisely timed and accurate functionality. The Video Suite includes a
wealth of inputs and outputs. Tnere are 9 video and 1 audio inputs avoilable, plus the 24-bit frame store. Professional quality video inputs and
outputs are available simultaneously in RGB or Y/R-Y/B-Y, Composite and S-Video. Choose any 2 sources from these inputs, assign a transition
or special effect, and then trigger it manually or automatically. All of the transitions ond effects provided by the OpalVision Video Processor are
available for use by the Video Suite.
A.B and Preview display LED
Audio Level VU meters
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Stereo
output
RGB
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Preview Main Main RGB
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Key
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The linear transparency key (Alpha channel and transparency effects) can be taken from the Video Processor or an external video source,
and/or output to another production switcher. This allows transparency control between 2 video sources on a pixel by pixel basis. The 1 Audio
inputs (5 stereo pairs) are fully software sequenced with smooth fades ond full, 5-band stereo frequency equalization.
Video Inputs:
(All available simultaneously)
• 4 composite inputs (a composite inputs if S-Video inputs are used as
composite)
• 4 S-Video Inputs (S-VHS, Hi-8 or Y/C)
• 1 or 2 RGB or Y/R-Y/B-Y inputs (2nd source uses the 4 composite inputs)
• 1 master sync input (master sync can be selected from
any video source)
• 1 Infinite level linear transparency key
Video Outputs:
• I composite main output
• I S-Video main Output
• 1 RGB or Y/R-Y/B-Y main output
• 1 linear transparency key
• 1 composite preview (automatically transcodes composite & S- Video)
• 1 S-Vldeo preview
Audio:
• Inputs: 10 mono or 5 stereo pairs
• Output: Stereo with S-band equalizer and VU meters
OpalVision Scan-Rate Converter
Add this card to the OpalVision Main Board and achieve 3 1 kHz, non-inte'rlaced output of Amiga graphics, OpalVision images and any
incoming source in either PAL or NTSC. And, we've added full time-base correction of incoming video. Time base correctors are used to
synchronize two non-synchronized video signals, or for cleaning up the timing of a "dirty" video signal. The on-board memory also serves
as o separate frame-store for dual framebuffer applications.
Converts Interlaced PAL and NTSC to 31kHz non-interlaced,
flicker-free display.
Plugs into the OpalVision Main Board. No external power supply
needed.
Works with any mulli -sync /multi-scan monitor.
New Features:
• Includes full, Infinite window Time Base Correction
• Operates in RGB lor superior quality
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Video Input Standards
(User selectable): NTSC. NTSC 4,4. PAL. SECAM
Video Output Standards: NTSC. NTSC 4.4, PAL
RGB output Bandwidth >7 MHz
Composite (Luma) Bandwidth 4,5 MHz typical
S-Video Bandwidth 5.5 MHz typical
Hue Control +30 to -30 degrees
Video lock jitter <15ns
Horizontal position adjust -320 to +1000 ns
Horizontal lock tange +/- 1200Hz typical
SubcarMer lock range +/■ 350Hz min-m urn
Linear Keyer input speed , >7MHz
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Audio Inputs 10 inputs (5 left, 5 fight) line level 20k ohms
Audio Outputs 2 outputs (Left, Right) line level 70 ohms
input Mode Differential for very low noise
Frequency Response 20Hz - >20kHz
Frequency Equalization points 5° Hz. 205 Hz. 790 Hz.
2.95 kHz, 12 kHz Equalization Range ...+/• 15db
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Mixing level control to -70db (independent software controlled DAC's)
VU meters 10steps-20dbto+3db range
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Professional-
level multimedia
development
package for
Amiga and
CDTV lines.
AmigaVision Professional
Commodore Business Machines, S399 (S99 upgrade for AmigaVision owners).
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected (freely-
distributable player included).
2.0/3.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 2MB of RAM.
Recommended system: 4MB of RAM
and hard drive.
I've used AmigaVision for many projects, and
while it has its limitations, it is still a powerful
too) for creating interactive multimedia. For pro-
fessional-level development, where you need so-
phisticated capabilities such as a wide variety of math
functions, database capability, and free-form but-
tons, "AV is by far the easiest program for creating
presentations. It is simply one of the most powerful
multimedia development systems available any-
where. Now, Commodore has done one better: Ami-
gaVision Professional solves most of the original
version's shortcomings.
New and Improved
One of AV's biggest problems has been its lack of a
distributable player. It has also needed an easy way
to launch an AV script upon bootup — essential in
kiosk applications. To launch a script, you've had to
double-click on its icon. AV Pro solves these prob-
lems by including a distributable player that you can
use to launch a script from a startup sequence or
CO, You also can launch the editor so that it comes
up with a playing script.
Displav capabilities have been greatlv improved.
Support for AGA graphics (A 1200 and A4000 dis-
plav modes of 256 colors and 256,000 color HAM
mode) has been added, with some current limita-
tions: You can't color-cycle or modify AGA images
from within AmigaVision (such as changing the
palette); and when using the Object Editor to cre-
ate an object to place on an AGA picture, you can
use only the first 32 colors in its palette. You can,
however, place full-color brushes on them.
More picture transitions are now available — 34 in
all. The requester separates them into two groups:
Half of them work with transitions between pictures
To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 92.
with differing palettes and resolutions; the other half
are for pictures that have identical palettes and res-
olutions. Not all transitions work well with AGA
graphics, but plenty are available. The ability to call
a random transition, which formerly required extra
programming, is another welcome addition.
In interactive presentations, flexibility in the cre-
ation of buttons is very important. Even powerful
programs such as Scala Multimedia 200 have limit-
ed button capability, and you are restricted to creat-
ing only rectangular buttons. In AV Pro, even an an-
imbrush can be a button. And you can import a
brush for this purpose, or use the improved draw-
ing tools in the object editor to create one.
Flying Objects
With the new path creator, you can create and edit
paths for buttons and objects to follow, with control
over speed and movemenl along the path. For ex-
ample, an interactive button could take the form of
a bird flapping ils wings and Hying back and forth
across the screen. You also now have control of ob-
ject depth, so your bird could flv behind one button
or object and in front of another. As a simple test, I
created three AnimFonts (animated brushes of let-
ters) moving around the screen, on circular paths.
Each was a separate button. The arrangement
worked perfectly, and was impressive.
Often, large animations can take a few seconds
to load. To speed things up, ANIM streaming —
which plays the ANIM as it is loaded, saving both
memory and time — has been added. You can set
the size of the buffer for streaming ANIMs.
Besides the standard Amiga graphics, AV Pro
now supports the CDXL animation format for
CDTV. You can even play a CDXL file within a
window moving along a path. In fact, AV Pro is a
powerful CDTV development system, with full sup-
port of CDTV functions such as automatic high-
lighting and support for the B button on the con-
16 May 1995
trailer as .1 "back" button. You can even
play tracks from audio CDs and audio
sections from a CD-ROM.
Audio has been significantly im-
proved: MIDI, which was limited to four
channels in the original, now supports
up to 20 channels; sound now supports
streaming.
The Object Editor has been spruced
up too, with a new paint-program-style menu bar,
rather than a pull-down type. It is easier to tise, and
includes a button lor dropping the menu out of the
way to reveal more of the screen.
One ofAV Pro's big changes is in object handling.
Objects (anything you create in the Object Editor, or
load in) can be named, are addressable by name, and
can be manipulated from anywhere within the script.
Objects can be addressed through the Expression
Editor, and functions can be used to determine when
an object moves to a specific position. You can add,
load, clone, or delete objects, and their attributes can
be directlv manipulated with variables for sophisti-
cated interactive applications.
Referencing requesters, which let you refer to an-
other icon elsewhere in the script, have been
changed. You can now reference an icon directly, or
use a computed reference based on an expression.
Developers creating presentations for distribution
or kiosks now have the option of limiting an appli-
cation's memory use. If the kiosk system has 5MB but
you have 12MB on your development machine, you
can limit the system to 5MB (or any preset
amount), or default to CDTV memory limits.
Other additions include conditional interrupts,
variable-definition checking, external port commu-
nications without using ARexx, available memory
checking, a customizable pointer, and manual loca-
tion of animations, screens, and brushes.
My Wish List
I'd like to see a few more things: ARexx control
over objects and attributes would be useful; the
Animation requester should include the option of
playing an ANIM and holding the last frame; com-
plete support of AGA — all resolutions; better sup-
port of new synthesi/.ed-speech capabilities. Over-
all, though, I am impressed with the new features.
While a number of other interactive-development
tools arc available (and I have [hem all), AmigaVision
Professional will be my primary tool. Besides being
very powerful, it is also very easy to use and has the
best interface of any available multimedia package.
If interactive multimedia is an area of interest to you,
you can't afford to be without AY Pro.
— Geoffrey Williams
AmigaVision
Pro's main screen
gives you access
to many new
features.
One-Stop Music Shop
Blue Ribbon Soundworks, S649.
A2000, A3000, A4000.
Internal, expansion slot connection.
Installation: Easy.
Hard-drive installable software.
Not copy protected.
2.0 (and up) compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 1MB of RAM
Recommended system: 1 +MB of RAM, hard drive.
Sample player and MIDI Interface for
multimedia producers and composers.
Electronic musicians will note well the introduc-
tion, a few years back, of the easy-to-use Proteus,
a single-rack space MIDI sound module featuring
32-note polyphony and great ROM sounds.
Now, with Blue Ribbon SoundWorks' One-Stop
Music Shop, .Amiga owners can have a Proteus built
in to their computer. At its heart is the actual sound
engine from the Proteus, piggybacked onto an ex-
pansion card usable in an A2000, 3000, or 4000
card slot. Also onboard is a MIDI interface with
MIDI in and out ports separate from the serial port.
Other Features
.Software includes a full-blown editor for the sound
engine, an ARexx-conlrollable MIDI file player with
several demo MIDI files, tools that allow One-Stop
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R K V I E W S
to be used with Bars and Pipes Pro and
as a stand-alone source, a PatchMeister
driver, and a demo ofSuperJam I.I.
The sound engine is essentially a ROM-
based sample player with '213 sampled
waveforms, which are used as sound
sources and manipulated in a basic syn-
thesizer-like architecture. The resulting
sound is defined as a preset, which can be
saved to disk. Output is via a pair of RCA
jai ks i>n tin- hack panel of the card.
A preset is made up of two wave-
forms — the "primary" and "secondary"
instruments, which can be modulated
separately by two low- frequency oscilla-
tors (LFOs) and an envelope generator.
Each instrument can then be shaped bv
its own dedicated envelope generator.
The sound engine packs some unusual
features: Crossfade. rather than playing
primary and secondary instruments si-
multaneously, gradually fades from one
to the other; Sound Start lets you Stan a
sound from any point in the sample; Re-
verse plays the sample backwards.
The sound engine's architecture be-
The Wait is Over ...
- The addition of AMax II Plus to ReadySofTs acclaimed series of Macintosh emulators brings powerful new
capabilities to your Amiga. A-Max II and AMax II Plus are hardware and software combinations that, once you
supply Macintosh 1 28K ROMs, run almost all Macintosh productivity software at full speed including Word, Excel,
Quark XPress* and Illustrator*. AMax II Plus is an internal card which may be easily inserted into a slot in your
i -_ Amiga 2000 or greater series computer. Once installed, AMax II Plus provides AppieTalk* serial port, MIDI
yi and disk compatibllty with the Macintosh.
-- The AMax 2.5 software also features: support for Amiga hard drives, mouse, keyboard, disk drives, serial and
. ■ parallel ports, processor accelerators, RAM, all normal video modes and screen sizes, de-lnteriacers, playback
_ • of Macintosh digitized sounds, Apple ImageWriter* emulation for 9 and 24 pin Epson* compatible printers,
' r \ and access to Macintosh SCSI peripherals through a hard drive controller's SCSI port.
AMajc II and AMae II ptui are trademark! of rteadySofr Incorporated. Apple,
M.clntoih. UK, AppleTalk, LaierU'rlicr. LocalTalk. ImageUfrller art registered
trademark, of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademark* are the property of
their reipcctlve owners.
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comes clear once you begin working with
the editor. The signal path is displayed
iti the main window with buttons repre-
senting modules with editable parame-
ters. The three basic modulation sources
(LFOs 1&2, and the auxiliary Envelope
Generator) are at the left of this screen.
Each LFO offers live waveshapes (sine,
sawtooth, triangle, square, and random),
with the typical amount, rate, and delay
controls — not so typical is a variation
control. Three buttons (Key/Velocitv
Control, Realtime Control, and Miscel-
laneous) let you define modulation
sources and destinations.
Click either (he primary or secondary
instrument buttons and a window con-
taining these parameters appears. Click
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One-Stop Music Shop spreads its
controls over multiple windows.
in the instrument box to scroll through
all of the sampled waveforms to select
the one that will be the basis for this
sound. Below are sliders to set instru-
ment range along with volume, panning,
tuning, start point, and delay (up to 13
seconds). At right is a graphic envelope
to set the instrument's dynamic shape.
A "Chorus" button uses MIDI dou-
bling to double the number of voices for
a chorus ell'ect. The Link button lets you
combine up to four presets in either lay-
ers or /.ones across the keyboard range.
A small keyboard representation lets you
audition the sound.
Making Music
One very attractive feature is the line in-
tegration with other Blue Ribbon prod-
ucts. Aside from the stand-alone One-
Stop editor, there is an accessor)' version
for Bars and I'ipes Pro that, once loaded,
runs from inside the program.
Sound engine in and out tools are
placed in the pipeline to access the
sound engine sounds, and a separate set
of MIDI in and out tools is used to ad-
dress the MIDI interface resident on the
One-Stop card. A General MIDI tool can
also be placed in the pipeline to send
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R E V I E W S
program changes to the sound engine.
This tool sends patch numbers 0-127
while displaying a corresponding Gen-
eral MIDI Standard patch name. The
stock sounds in the sound engine also
conform to the GM spec.
The sound engine is also supported bv
Blue Ribbon's universal patch librarian,
the I'atchMcister, which lets you organ-
ize and manipulate sound engine patch
hanks, and can also be run as an acces-
sory in Bars and Pipes Pro.
Using the Loop Back tool, the sound
engine can also be used with other se-
quencers or as a stand-alone sound
source. This entails routing the MIDI
out from the Amiga MIDI interface or
from your master controller to the MIDI
in on the One-Stop interface.
Super Jam (version 1.1 and higher)
works very nicely with One-Stop. When
Super|am senses One-Stop, il automat-
ically replaces the turbo sound option
with the sound engine and redirects
MIDI communication through the One-
Stop interface, freeing the serial port.
Conclusion
I have only one small complaint: You
can't disable an incoming MIDI chan-
nel; every channel is assigned a sound.
Though this should be a problem only
for non-Bars and Pipes users with mul-
tiple sound sources and controllers — I
could suggest a work-around such as cre-
ating a "zero" patch — a channel-specif-
ic data Filter would be a helpful addition.
Nevertheless, this is an excellent prod-
uct. It's especially useful for multimedia
applications, but anyone making music
with an Amiga could make good use of
One-Stop. This is definitely one of the
best Amiga music products that I have
seen so far.
— Steve Qtiinzi
ImageFX
Great Valley Products, $399.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
Accelerator-optimized version included.
2.0 compatible; supports AGA.
Minimum system: 1MB of chip RAM.
Recommended system: 4+MB of RAM,
hard drive, enhanced-display adapter,
accelerator.
Image processing, 24-bit painting,
special effects, scanner support,
and polymorphic animation control.
In film and video, two currently hot
topics are morphing and image pro-
cessing. Fanning the fire, ImageFX in-
corporates extensive image processing,
file-format conversion, image retouch-
ing, scanner and framegrahber support,
as well as single, dual, and sequence
morphing animation controls. The pro-
gram gives you all this control over 2-1-
bit true-color images, plus alpha-channel
support, a clean intuitive interlace, and
generally fast execution.
1 rarely start a review on such a glow-
ing note, but these programs (ImageFX
also includes GineMorph) are something
to gel excited about.
ImageFX imports Alias, ANIM, BMP,
DPII, FLI, FLC, GIF, ILBM, Impulse,
JPEG, PGX, PPM, PMG, Amiga and
Windows Icon, RAW, Rendition, Targa,
1 IFF, DG'IV, and FIAM-E files. You can
load them into the main buffer, a swap
buffer, or the alpha channel. You can
grab screens, place images in the clip-
board, load brush images, scan from the
Sharp JX 100 or the Epson ES3000, or
grab frames with GVP's IV24 or Pro-
gressive Peripherals' FrameGrabber.
Images can then be rendered to de- 1
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PageSlream. DynaCadd, Imagine2.0 to name a few.
The Retina™ requires the 2.0 or greater operating system.
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VLab™ - RealTimc Video Digitizer
Digitiies a full frame in 1 /30th of a second or t field in l/60lh of a second. Digitizes in full Broadcast NTSC or PAL
Wilt save images as 24Bit, YUV, or any Amiga format including AGA modes like HamS.
The VLab™ has 2 Composite Video inputs.
The VLab' v will work in the A2000, A3000 and the A4000 scries Amiga Computers and does not use the video slot.
There is also a VLabl200tha! allows owners of the A1200, A50O, A600 to also use the VLab™.
The \Tab™ docs not require a frame accurate video player to hold the image still to digitize.
The Vtab™ will in real-time digitize any frame from the video source that you have connected.
You can digitize images from cable TV, Broadcast TV, VC R, Video Disk Players, and Video Cameras,
The VLab™ is supported by popular Graphics software such as ASDG's Art Dcpar^'cnt Professional, TVPaint by
TechSoft, MtiltiFrame by MncroSystemUS.
There is a special monitor window that allows you to see the video signal that you have attached to the VLab in a
window on the VLab screen in up to 1 6 gray scales.
The VLab 1 M software requires the 2.0 operating system or higher and is fully ARexx compatible.
The VLab™ is compatible with the Video Toaster, OpalVision, Retina™, and Harlequin.
The VLab™ is also supported by the Nucleai Personal SFC.
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Controlsbolli A DPROand MORP1 1 PLUS operators from
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vices such as Impulse's Firecracker, Cen-
taur's OpalVision. I\'2-i, a SAGE display.
Digital Creations' DCTV, Black Belt's
HAM-E, or to any Amiga display, in-
cluding the new AGA resolutions. Im-
ageFX displays a working full-screen im-
age using the standard grayscale or color
Amiga display for fast feedback, which is
very helplul when your image is larger
than the display area.
Gray Matter
ImageFX offers all the basic painting
and touch-up tools, along with "Magic
Scissors," which helps vou pick up brush
areas without the background. While I
would prefer a tool to provide an easily
modifiable stencil, the manual suggests
that you use the alpha channel as a
frisket or stencil to protect areas.
The alpha channel is a 256-shade
grayscale image vou can use to control
effects on the 24-bit image, without nec-
essarily altering color values of the im-
age. Areas that are closer to white in
the alpha channel have a greater effect
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-with hardware floating point math and up to eight megabytes of 32-bit FastRAM. Standard on the
MBX 1200 is a Motorola 68881 clocked at motherboard speeds (14.3MHz). This feature alone will
speed up math intensive operations by as much as 55 times (AIBB v5.0 Savage benchmark). If you do
any ray-tracing, image manipulation, morphing or animation, such hardware floating point is a
must-have feature. MBX 1200 is also available with a 25MHz or 50MHz 68882. Add on an optional
72-pin SIMM memory module to MBX 1200 and average system performance will increase to 193% of
a standard A1200 (or to 688% of a standard A500!). SIMM sizes supported: 1,2,4, or 8 megabytes.
SIMM type is identical to that used in the Amiga 4000. Don't buy sluggish, 16-bit wide "credit card"
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Software includes MBRTest-2, a comprehensive system memory test, and MBXRAM8, a "credit card"
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than those that are closer to black.
While this may sound confusing, the
quality of the effects can be remarkable.
The water-drop effect in the accompany-
ing photo, created with an ImageFX spe-
cial effect, was accomplished using the al-
pha channel to generate the alteration.
Other tools provide control over the
image, as well, including color balanc-
ing, contrast, antialiasing, color limits,
stilling, sharpening, and edge detection.
There are also special effects for distor-
tion (based on the alpha-channel image),
waves, oil transfer, and others.
ImageFX fully supports ARexx and
has add-on modules called Hook pro-
grams, which you can use in conjunction
with image processing to add even more
special effects, such as Black Hole, Spi-
ral, and Explode. The Hook approach
lets you add new modules without up-
grading to a completely new program.
Morph Magic
One of ImageFX's Hook programs is
CineMorph. Briefly, morphing is the
ability to create transitional frames by
controlling (he movement of specific
points of the start image to match those
of the end image. The beginning and
ending could be the same image, two
different images, or a series of images as
required for a full-motion morph.
The single-image morph is easiest lo
explain: Think of a picture on a sheet of
thin rubber. When vou poke vour finger
at the back side of the rubber, the picture
stretches and distorts. You can create
this same effect by moving the end
[joints of the tnoiphed image outward in
a circular pattern that is about the size of
your finger.
This example can be much more de-
tailed and can be utilized over a series of
images. ImageFX uses a grid pattern of
points to control the begin and cn<] points
of your images. Your work area is two
side-by-side windows that contain gray-
scale versions of the start and end im-
Combinlng ImageFX's alpha channel and
effects controls yields stunning results.
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stacking menu bars can be user
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ages, respectively, with the grid super-
imposed over them. Points can be
added, deleted, grouped, and locked in
place points, hut unfortunately cannot
be bidden.
For detail work, you can zoom in on
the images. Point movement can be lin-
ear or by spline curve, and you can con-
trol point-movement acceleration and
dissolve speeds both globally or on a lo-
cal point-grouping basis.
Perhaps the best feature is that die
morphing calculations are quite quick.
although speed is, of course, dependent
on your system, the image complexity,
and the number of control points. In
addition, this version ofCineMorph lets
you call another processing function
and save the results in any of the sup-
ported file formats.
Another major feature in ImageFX is
the use of virtual memory. If you don'i
have enough RAM to handle die process-
ing for a large image, Image FX uses vour
hard disk as virtual RAM, While this is
slower, you can still complete your project.
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The MtgAChip 2000000 is a needed addition il
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I manipulated an 8MB image on my 9MB
machine with only a small difference in
processing time from smaller images.
Pros and Cons
I was quite impressed with ImageFX; it
has a hetter user interface, wider file
support, and more features than its
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tunately incomplete. It does not explain
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DlR ECTOR YQPUS
Version 4.0
INOVAtronics, S99.95
Hard -drive installable.
No copy protection.
2.0, AGA compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 1MB of BAM.
Recommended system: I+MBoFRAM,
hard drive.
Directory utility for file management,
IFF and ANIM viewing, and
playing sound files.
In the beginning there were two inter-
faces: Workbench and CLI. And the
Amiga user looked at them, but not
everyone thought they were good. Old-
timers shunned point and click; novices
couldn't get past the word syntax. So,
both camps stubbornly clung to their fa-
vorite interface.
Fortunately, a few advanced thinkers
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faces that promised to provide both
Workbench friendliness and CLI pow-
er. Thus the directory utility was born.
What began as a simple matrix of but-
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terface in its own right.
New Features
DirectoiyOpus's claim to fame is its con-
figurability. With i his latest release even
more flexibility is available.
The list of new enhancements for ver-
Continued on p. 26
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sion 4.0 is an arm long, but here are the
hot ones: unlimited user-configurable
buttons, user-definable menus, and de-
vice buttons; graphic support for all AGA
chip-set capabilities; display of all ILBM
formats; and playback of ANIMS and
animbrushes.
Attdio playback now supports more
sound module programs. The internal
Diskcopy, Format, and Print Functions
are now stand-alone modules like the
Configuration program and offer a
plethora of options and functions. All
DirectoiyOpus menus, requesters, and
configuration edit screens greatly ben-
efit from an AmigaDOS 2.0-style
facelift.
However, INOVAtronics has added
DirectoryOpus 4.0's flexibility and AGA
support make it a powerful utility.
one special icon of its own design that
puts the icing on the cake. Whenever a
field has a list of commands, options, or
files to select, a small magnifying-glass
icon appears next lo the field's status line.
Clicking the icon calls up a new requester
that lets you select the desired item.
Upon opening the package, you'll
notice thai the manual has grown right
along with the program. Its 272 pages
are logically organized, and all major
sections are now numbered, allowing
easier reference. The first 1 74 pages are
devoted to a detailed explanation of Di-
rectoiyOpus operation and capabilities,
including an improved, expanded look
at every command and function. The
combination of new requester interface
and better manual guarantees you'll
get more out of this version of Direc-
toryOpus.
While the program can be run from
disk, it is designed to be integrated into
your boot configuration. Commodore's
standard installation utility is used to in-
stall the program and its files, so first-
time users, as well as current Directoiy-
Opus owners, should find the process
simple and straightforward. If you con-
vert from a version later than 3.22, all
modifications and customizing von may
have incorporated into DirectoryOpus
will be retained. When 4.0 is started it
will look and act just like your previous
version. (Please note: If you are using
DirectoiyOpus Version 3.22, you must
delete the DirectoryOpus-CFG fife nor-
mally found in the S directory before in-
stalling version 4.0.)
Working with Opus
Examining the Project menu reveals the
first new option — Button Iconify, which
will transform your DirectoryOpus
screen into a bank of buttons. Ilie num-
ber of bank-rows displayed is selectable
from within l he configuration program.
Now you can access DirectotyOpus's ac-
tion buttons directly from the Work-
bench screen.
A quick look around die Directory-
Opus window reveals the same friendly
layout as in previous versions. Upon
closer examination, you'll discover that
some buttons have clog-eared folds, in-
dicating dual-action buttons. This seem-
ingly small change greatly improves pro-
gram use. Many similar little tweaks in
the program set DirectoiyOpus above
other directory utilities and make it a
real powerhouse.
To accommodate the increased num-
ber of drive and control buttons, sliders
appear alongside each group of buttons,
providing a quick way to page through
them. You can now resize the source and
destination windows horizontally within
the confines of the DirectoiyOpus win-
dow. The directory-tree function has
been graphically enhanced, making it
much easier to read.
A Show of Strength
The real power of version 4.0 lies in the
new edit windows and the greatly im-
proved user manual. Together they
make it so much easier to modify Direc-
toryOpus and capitalize on its built-in
strengths.
I normally configure the Show func-
tion to display an image for just one sec-
ond. But there are limes I'd like to study
an image. In the past I'd either modify
the command via the Configure pro-
gram or start a different viewer. The fol-
lowing modification illustrates how easy
it is to create a dual-action button and re-
program the existing Show command
for my needs.
From the Button Edit Screen in the
Configure program make these changes.
First select the Show button and add the
following new entries:
Command Modify ShowDelay 1
Command Show
Now from the other bank select the
button that corresponds to Show and
name this button View. From the Button
Edit Screen add these new entries:
Command Modify ShowDelay
Command Show
Now left-clicking the Show button dis-
plays images in one-second intervals as
before. But right-clicking Show activates
View, which displays and holds the im-
age on screen as long as you like.
This simple example demonstrates
the power and flexibility of every Di-
rectoiyOpus command and Directory-
Opus itself. From its outset, Workbench
should have had the form, function,
and power offered by this new version
of DirectoiyOpus. At least we can have
it today.
— -Joe DiCara
Address-It!
Legendary Design Technologies Inc., S39.95.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 512KofRAM.
Recommended system: 1MB of RAM,
hard drive.
List management.
Address-It! is the easiest, most com-
plete program Eve ever used to gen-
erate and track lists. Address-It! provides
a simple, intuitive way to deal with
names and addresses, offering lime-sav-
ing shortcuts for data entry. For exam-
ple, you can double-click certain field ti-
tles, such as salutation or state, to call up
a requester. Double-clicking one of the *■
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High resolution color scanners.
New from Epson.
Epson introduces eves for Amiga 1 . for the 600C or 800C model, you always gel
Coupled with an ASDG ADPro 1 driver, Epson 24-bit single pass color scanning with almost
offers the best flatbed scanning combination 17 million colors. But Epson also offers an
available for Amiga, automatic document feeder attachment and
Greater speed and higher resolution is a an add-on transparency unit, which give yon
given for both models, and whether von opt the flexibility to scan slides. And of course it's
all protected by Epson's one-year warranty.
So drop by your computer store soon
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ask for representative 81 for more informa-
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choices automatically enters that infor-
mation into the appropriate field.
Custom Database
As with any database, Address-It! lets von
sort through your data in several ways.
You can use a proportional gadget at the
bottom of the main screen for casual
browsing. Or, use one of the numerous
ways to locate specific records, most of
which have hot-key shortcuts.
A unique search feature in Address-
It! is controlled by the 15 initially emp-
ty boxes on the main screen. Click the
Define gadget below them, and you can
enter a text string, which then appears
in one of the 1 5 boxes.
For instance, if you're in charge of
your user-group's newsletter, you could
fill these boxes with different system
configurations. Make one A500, one
A2000, one for hard drive, and so on.
Now, each of the 15 boxes is a Hag that
you can toggle on or off for each
record. As you enter members" names,
click the appropriate flags that define
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that would be interested in them.
Fit addition to mailing labels and index
cards, Address-It! also generates address
and phone pages and envelopes. Re-
questers let you specify either standard
or custom page sizes, and the program
shows you a preview of your layout. You
can print envelopes with or without a re-
turn address or an attention line. All of
the forms allow you to choose which in-
formation fields are printed, and you can
change the field length to fit your data.
Address-It! also imports and exports
data in WordPerfect, ProWrite, and
ASCII formats, so you can import a list
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certain groups, and then output the data
to a mail-merge word-processor docu-
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The only drawback is the 40-page
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The GREAT
Manipulators
BY DEREK. GRIME
Amiga image-processing software
is continually evolving, allowing
you to alter more images
more skillfully.
ODAY'S COMPUTER ARTIST has a freedom the tra-
ditional artist cannot even imagine. Traditional me-
dia are permanent, but computer pictures can be
mixed, blurred, sharpened, converted, and en-
hanced. Furthermore, computer artists need not start
From scratch with each work. With image-processing
software, you can instantly apply effects to any im-
ages, including digitized photos.
Lately, much has happened in the realm of Amiga
image processing. Before you put cursor to screen
image, you should know how the available tools stack
up. What are the programs' strengths and weakness-
es? Which package gives the best dollar value? Which
offers the most features? And most importantly, what
is the right choice for you?
In seeking the answers to those questions, I re-
viewed what were, at press time, the latest releases of
the Amiga's three main image-processing programs:
Art Department Professional 2.2 ($299, ASDG),
(Imagemaster 9.23 (SI 99.95, Black Belt Systems), and
ImageFX 1.03 ($249.95, GVP). {To locate the vendors
of products mentioned in this article, see the Manufactur-
ers'/Distributors' list oil p. 92.)
ASDG's The Art Department followed the Amiga's
first wave of image processors — PIXmate (now out of
production) and Butcher (now part of Eagle Tree Soft-
ware's authoring program Helm). Since upgraded to
Art Department Professional, ADPro introduced the
new wave of image processing. It has earned its good
reputation, and ASDG continues to improve it; version
2.3 may be out by the time you read this.
AD Pro's first challenger was Imagemaster. The pro-
gram has an incredible range of features, and Black
Belt constantly releases upgrades. In fact, Black Belt
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH BY ANN DILLON
AmigaWorld 31
I M V G E
I'ROCESSIXG
S F T W A R E
was promising imminent release oflmagemaster 9.24
as we went to press.
The new kid on the block, GVP's ImageFX, was re-
leased in late '92. ImageFX is far more than just a pic-
ture manipulator. (AT has packed in so much value
that ImageFX must be considered by any serious user.
Let's start our exploration of the programs' differ-
ences by comparing their file-format finesse.
Graphics In, Graphics Out
Before processing an image, you must load it into
Imagemaster'a Caricature operation gave the original sheep
(above) an hourglass figure (below).
your software. While Amiga users are lucky to have just
one major file format with IFF, the rest of the world
is dogged by a maze of differing formats. On a DOS
machine you may run into TIFF, GIF, Targa, and
BMP, to name just a few. To make matters worse, for-
mats often come in different versions. A TIFF file
saved from a paint program may not load into a desk-
top-publishing program, and vice versa.
Why does this matter to Amiga users? Because you
want to be able to thaw from as many sources as pos-
sible. We've included a matrix (see the sidebar "Read-
ing, Writing, and. . . ") which shows how the trio fares
in terms of loading and saving various picture files.
Keep in mind that support for dozens of formats
looks impressive on paper but unless the software
supports all the format's variations, results can be
disappointing.
For these tests, I used two different programs on an
SGI workstation to generate 24-bit files in four formats
each: Targa, GIF, TIFF, and Alias. I then attempted
to load the eight files into each of the three Amiga
programs. I used the auto-load features of both AD-
Pro and ImageFX, which automatically try to deci-
pher the formal of the file; Imagemaster has no such
feature and requires you to specify the file format be-
fore loading.
AD Pro performed like a pro; while it does not sup-
port Alias, its universal-load feature recognized each
of the three other formats automatically.
ImageFX supports all four of these formats but
could read only the GIF and TIFF files automatical-
ly. It recognized and loaded the other pictures only
after I specified their formats.
Of the four formats I tested, Imagemaster supports
only Targa. It could not, however, read any of the test
Targa files correctly. While it did attempt to load the
files, the results were nothing like the originals.
All three of the programs performed well when
writing files. The workstation software could read all
the pictures the Amiga programs generated, al-
though Imagemaster's Targa output was marred by
vertical lines.
ASDG claims that AD Pro is "image processing's
common ground." It certainly comes close. Not only
does ADPro support more image formats than its two
competitors, but the program makes an effort to sup-
port all the formats' many permutations. ASDG
should be applauded for a job well done. There is a
cost for such flexibility, however. Support for Targa,
TIFF, Sun Raster, and other higher-end formats is
not standard, but requires the purchase of ASDG's
Professional Conversion Pack (S90).
The Learning Curve
If you're the type of person who hates to read manu-
als, then either ADPro or ImageFX is your best choice.
While ImageFX employs simple icons for many of its
functions and ADPro goes for a push-button ap-
proach, both programs provide easy-to-use, intuitive
interfaces.
Imagemaster is not so straightforward. It requires
you to dig for the functions you want to use. For ex-
ample, to solarize a picture you must go from the
main panel to the process panel and then to the spec-
ial-effects panel where you click on the solarize op-
tion and then flip back to another panel to define the
32 Mai 1993
I M A (i E
PROCESSING SO F T W V R K
area to be processed. The program gives you access
to lots of power, but makes wielding it trickier than it
has to.
Manuals are important and ASDG has provided the
best of the group. At more than 300 illustrated pages,
it is well written and comprehensive. ImagcFX comes
close with more than 200 pages, including an im-
mense ARexx reference section.
Imagemaster's manual is adequate, though it does
not explain every aspect of the program. A ReadMe
file on the program disk contains more than 250K ol
information. That's 1 10 pages! You are supposed to
print this monster and add it to the manual. (Appar-
ently, a lot has changed since the initial release.) Black
Belt knows this is a problem and is working on a new
manual, but it's cold comfort to a new user faced with
hours of printing. Despite this weakness, Imagemas-
ter's is the only manual that includes examples of
processed pictures so you know what your results
should look like.
Convolutions and Transformations
Once a picture is loaded, all three programs can work
miracles, yet each approaches the same process with
a different attitude. AD Pro offers a full-screen control
panel and does all its magic out of sight on a back-
ground screen. ImagcFX and Imagemaster provide
half-screen panels that allow you to see the process-
ing as it happens.
There is much overlap in functionality among the
three. One program may refer to a feature by the
name "collapse" while another calls a similar feature
"the black hole."
AD Pro has a large range of tools and lets you choose
Reading, Writing, and . . .
The more image formats and equipment a program fully
supports, the more flexibility it otters. While the main article
details my experiences with each program's format support,
this matrix shows the range of loaders, savers, and device dri-
vers the software provides.
IMAGE FORMATS:
LOAD
ADPro
2.2
Abekas D
Alias
ANIM C
BMP Y
DKfi
DPaint IBM Y
DigiVlew21 Y
GEMRI
OIF Y
IFF Y
Imagine Y
JPEG Y
NASA J PL, FITS, PDS
MacPaint Y
PBM
PCB
PCX Y
PICT D
QRT Y
Rendition A
Sculpt Y
SunRaster A
Targa A
TIFF A
XWindow A
YUVN Y
ImageFX
1.03
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Imagemaster
9.23
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
SAVE (cont.)
Imagine
JPEG
PBM
PCX
PICT
PostScript
QRT
Rendition
Sculpt
SunRaster
Targa
TIFF
XWindow
DEVICE SUPPORT:
A2410
Abekas
Amigal 200/4000
DCTV
Film Recorder
Firecracker
Framebuffer
Framegrabber
HAM-E
Harlequin
IV24
OpalVision
Printers
Resolver
Scanners
Vivid24
VLAB Digitizer
ADPro
2.2
Y
Y
Y
D
Y
Y
A
Y
A
A
A
A
ADPro
2.2
Y
B
Y
Y
B
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
B
ImageFX
1.03
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Imagemaster
9.23
Y
Y
ImageFX Imagemaster
1.03 9.23
Y
Y
Y
E
Y
Y
SAVE
Abekas
Alias
ANIM
BMP
DPaint IBM
GIF
IFF
ADPro
2.2
B
C
Y
Y
Y
ImageFX
1.03
Imagemaster
9.23
Y
Y
Y
Y
KSY:
Y = Yes — program provides support
A = Available with Professional Conversion Pack.
B = Available as a separate product from ASDG
C = Now available in MorphPIus; promised for ADPro2.3.
D = Promised for next version of ProConversion Pack.
E = Promised for Imagemaster 9.24
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I M A G E ■ (> R C E S S I N G SOFT W A R E
values on separate control panels for many of the op-
erators. These panels allow for precise adjustments
and make ADPro a natural when doing fine-tuning for
print or video. Operators include blur, collapse, line
art, tile, and twirl. ASDG's MorphPlus ($295) works
with ADPro to give you several additional operators.
Incidentally, MorphPlus is ADPro's ticket to full-mo-
tion morphing, which is standard with Imagemaster
and Image FX. ADPro is fast, often much quicker than
its competition.
ImageFX has many similar operators and makes
them somewhat less involved by giving vou limited
control over each operation. If you don't want to
operate on the whole picture, ImageFX makes it easy
to choose a portion of the picture to work on. GVP
also adds some standard paint tools (such as magni-
fy) and sports an undo button. In addition to pro-
viding such basic operators as blur and sharpen, Im-
ageFX offers extra features via the Hook tool. Through
"hooks" you can measure pixels and produce his-
tograms, counting the red, green, and blue content of
the image.
Imagemaster tips the ante considerably by adding
more functions and filters than the other two com-
bined. This is Imagemaster's true strength: dazzling
effects that the competition hasn't even dreamed of.
Nowhere else can you find droop, contour, caricature,
thicken, zig-zag, shine, blueprint, melt, and dome op-
tions. And there are many, man)- more. You can even
add fake geographic elevations to an image or use a
picture to create a real elevation map that can be
loaded into VistaPro (Virtual Reality Labs) and ren-
dered as a landscape. Everything you can do with AD-
Pro and ImageFX you can presumably do with Im-
agemaster by combining its numerous special effects.
Keep in mind that some of these nifty tools take a long
time to process the picture. All in all, though, Image-
master has the best bag of tricks.
A nice touch is each program's provision of batch
processors that let you alter entire groups of images
any way you wish.
If You Act Now. . .
There is more to this group than just image process-
ing. For instance, all three programs include full
ARcxx ports that allow you to create new functions
and modify existing ones.
The troika works with the entire range of Amiga dis-
plays. Oddball formats like SHAM (high-res HAM)
are here, as well as the new AGA and HAMS modes
offered by the A1200 and A4000. There is good sup-
port for third-party display cards such as Impulse's
Firecracker 24, GVP's IV24, and Digital Micronics'
Rcsolver, and all work with DCTV (Digital Creations)
and HAM-E (Black Belt) as well.
The three programs let you print directly; Image-
FX and ADPro can even save in PostScript and En-
The original Image (top) under-
went somewhat revolutionary
changes thanks to Imagemas-
ter's Relief function (center) and
ImageFX's Oil Transfer effect
(bottom).
34 Mm 1993
I M V (i E
I' K C E H II) G S F T W ARE
capsulaced PostScript formats. Furthermore, each one
creates text slides that you can save as IFF Files.
If you need to create images from scratch or just
do touch-tips, Imagemaster and ImageFX include lull
paint programs that are well integrated with the rest
of the functions. Imagemaster's paint module has the
most features, but the ImageFX offering most resem-
bles a standard Amiga paint program and is simpler
to use.
Of the program versions I reviewed, only Image-
FX had built-in drivers For scanners. (Imagemaster's
upgrade, which is due out by the time you read
this, promises support for Epson's ES300, 600, and
800 units.) ImageFX's Sharp JX 100 and Epson
ES300C support is a generous bonus; in my tests the
JX1 00 driver performed (lawlessly. ASDG offers sup-
port for a much wider range of scanners, but at a
higher cost. An AD Pro driver module for Epson scan-
ners is $200, and one for HP's ScanJet lie is in the
works. ASDG's Professional ScanLab II, which drives
Sharp units, is S499.
Only ASDG offers separate products that support
professional film recorders like Polaroid's CI-5000
and Lasergraphics' LFR. ASDG even sells ADPro
modules that drive dye-sublimation printers and con-
trol Abekas digital-videotape recorders directly from
the Amiga. Support for the Abekas is sure to be a cru-
cial element in getting the Amiga into even more
high-profile video post-production houses.
Standard equipment on .ADPro are the programs
Splitz and Joinz. If an image is too big to fit on a disk,
you can use Splitz to break it into disk-size parts and
Joinz to reassemble them. ADPro also includes IBM
(DOS and Windows) and Mac versions of these two
utilities so you can swap images with your friends on
other platforms.
Finally, all three companies offer on-line technical
support (via modem) to registered users.
What's Right?
There are good raisons d'etre for all three programs.
Each is stronger in some way than its competitors,
and each suits a different type of user.
For the experimenter, the avant-garde artist who
craves wilder and stranger special effects, I recom-
mend Imagemaster. If you run a video boutique or
post house you must buy this program. It excels when
creating outrageous images, the type you see in mu-
sic videos. Imagemaster does demand more from its
users, but if you persevere it can outperform anything
else. The exterior is an ugly duckling but the soul is
solid gold.
If you run a small studio and want an all-in-one so-
lution with good value, then purchase ImageFX. I feel
the program's Cinemorph module represents the
most elegant morph solution of the three, and it's in-
cluded here for free. Plus, you get a powerful 24-bit
paint program, lots of effects, and built-in scanner
support. It's easy to use and you can be up and run-
ning in minutes. It also oilers the most natural inter-
face. When I use ImageFX, I feel as though I am trans-
forming the image, not just sitting back and letting the
software do all the work. If a quick solution is what you
need, you can't go wrong with ImageFX.
Despite the strengths of the other two programs,
Art Department Professional is the strongest of the
three. It gets the nod because it does what it claims
to do. To its credit, ASDG has done the job right,
supporting formats correctly and adhering to stan-
dards the others have only touched on. If you ever
transfer files back and forth to other systems, you
must have ADPro or risk ending up with egg on
your face. ADPro is much more expensive when you
Sfactor in MorphPlus and the Professional Conver-
sion Pack, but you do get what you pay for. It's a sol-
id value, despite its premium price. You will find
uses for all three programs, but ADPro is the one
you will turn to in a pinch.
And hey, if your bank account can take the strain,
get all three. Imagemaster has the flash, ImageFX has
the range, and ADPro has the precision. As a trio they
cover all the bases and then some. ■
Derek Crime is president of Beyond Graphics, a Toronto-
based animation studio that recently finished work for Fox,
Front Loops, 7UP, and Commodore.
Did the fisherman In the photo (left) catch a big one (right)? Sorry, Charlie, It's Imagemaster's Radical Wave
effect. (Photo credit: Nancy Gefvert.)
AmigaWorld 35
Outline Rasterization: After the original color picture has been digitized (top left), posterize the image into fewer colors with flat
color areas (middle left). Then, having created an outline version of the image (bottom left), composite the two images into the
finished graphic (right). All operations for this example were done with Digi-View 4.0.
36 May 1993
By Fred Hurteau
If you're footing for some slick, snappy-looking tricks
to liven up plain-vanilla graphics, check out these
image-processing techniques for creating
outlined posterized graphics.
LIKE EVERY MAGICIAN, a computer artist needs a few tricks up his sleeve. Image
processing offers some excellent opportunities for conjuring up such magic. The
techniques presented in this article will show you how to perform some digital pres-
tidigitation on an ordinary grabbed or digiti/.ed image and transform it into an out-
lined posterized graphic with artistic flair.
You've got a wide array of choices when it conies to finding the necessary tools to
perform your magic. Any one of the following seven popular graphics and image-pro-
cessing programs will do the trick: PIXmate (Progressive Peripherals), DeluxePaint
(Electronic Arts), Newtek's Digi-View or Transfer 24 (provided with Digi-Paint 3),
Art Department Professional (ASI)G), ImageEX (GVP), and Imagemaster (Black Belt).
Our- tutorial will take you through all seven programs, step by step, lo demons! rate
how each one produces its effects in different ways. So, no matter which one you choose
to use, you'll know the trick to making it perform your bidding.
Before we begin, though, keep this in mind: Selecting a suitable subject for your
magic is extremely important. Outline posterizatiorj works best on an image with
large elements. Too many small details will confuse the issue. A close-up of one or
two Mowers works far better than a picture of the whole flower garden. Image sources
might include a digitized photo or slide, a grabbed frame of videotape, or an image
from a graphics-library disk. The technique works with images in any format — from
16-color to 24-bit — so the only limiting factor is whether your software is capable of i
AinivnWorld 31
I M A G E - P R C EU [HI! TECHNIQUES
handling that particular format (The chart in "The
Great Manipulators" on p. 33 in this issue, lists all
compatible image Formats for ADPro, Imagemaster,
and ImageFX.)
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THE FIRST STEP is postering the image into fewer
colors, introducing flat color areas with no dithering.
HAM or 24-bil images should first be convened to 10
colors. Your completed image can later be used in a
24-bit program and still retain the posterized look.
ADPro, ImageFX, Imagemaster, DeluxePaint IV AGA,
and Digi-View 4.0 will load and convert 24-bit or HAM
images, while DeluxePaint IV, PIXmate. Transfer 24,
and earlier versions of Digi-View will convert HAM
images only.
Digi-View or Transfer 24 users should open the
program in the screen size of the finished graphic. In
the Control requester select the 1 6-color button and set
Dithering to Off to enhance the postcrizing effect of
reducing colors. (The technique of not using dithering
is one we will employ with all programs covered in this
article — see Figure 1 for more details.) Load your 24-
bit, HAM, 16- or 32-color image. For 24-bit images,
start with contrast and brightness sliders set about -20.
Click Display to see the effect. Adjust brightness and
contrast as necessary for a good image. You can fur-
ther reduce colors by using the slider in the Palette re-
quester and then clicking Display. Save your posterized
image to disk when clone.
To use ADPro, load your image and set the Screen
Controls buttons to the desired screen resolution and
16 colors. Set Dither to Off and render with the Ex-
ecute button. Now save the 1 6-color image to disk.
With Imagemaster, this project becomes a multi-
Figure 1. Differing degrees of posterization are achieved by turning
off dithering when reducing the number of colors in an image. With
dithering off, there are hard edges and more abrupt changes
between areas of different color — as opposed to lots of dithered
pixels simulating color and shade transitions when dithering is on.
The overall effect is more like a drawing than a digitized image.
pie-choice test. To scale HAM images up to hi-res,
choose Scale To New Size and then make the ap-
propriate selection for hi-res under Set Render Size.
(Be sure to select No Dither for Set Dither Type.) To
posterize your image, go to the Process Panel, select
Special Effects, and then click Posterize and Entire
Image. Set the Poster Levels slider for 16 colors or
less and click Done. Y'ou can achieve a similar pos-
terization using Contour under Filters. Set the Con-
tour Interval slider to about 125-150 and click Done.
To save the image, click on File I/O and then on
Render to File.
For ImageFX, load your image and resize it if nec-
essary using the Size/Scale option. In the Render
menu, set the left Dither Options button to None and
the Display Options color button to 16. Render and
save the " Rendered Image" to disk. You can farther re-
duce colors by selecting Posterize from the Color
menu, setting the slider to less than 16 colors. Render
as before, making sure the Dither button is set to None,
and save this "Rendered Image."
With PIXmate, load your HAM image and choose
HAM To 82 from the Color menu. Then select Refor-
mat As [640x400] under the Effects menu to obtain the
desired posterized image. You can posterize any im-
age using Less Colors in the Color menu. Be sure to
save your image.
[fyou use DeluxePaint, open the program in the
screen format of your image. Then load vour image
and select Screen Format from the Picture menu.
Choose Hi-Res and 16 colors and click Okay. When the
requester asks if you want the image stretched or
shrunk to fit the page, select Yes. Now save this con-
verted image.
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AFTER POSTERIZATION, YOU need to make an
outline version of the image, which may require gray-
scaling first. Except for PIXmate and DeluxePaint, us-
ing the same program for gray-scaling and outlining
after posterization requires saving and reloading the
posterized image before continuing. If you don't, your
program will use the original data still in memory, and
you will lose your posterization effect. Because outlin-
ing in DeluxePaint is not automated, we'll cover that
program last.
With the exception oflmagemaster's "Edge Line"
option (which requires no compositing), after you
create your outline version you must combine the
posterized image and the outline image into the fin-
ished graphic. Some programs — ImageFX, ADPro,
and the "Line Art" function in Imagemaster — provide
for such compositing within the program, so we will
examine their compositing methods as we discuss the
outlining procedures for each of those programs. For
the other programs (or if you decide you do not want
to use the more complex compositing functions in
ImageFX and ADPro), you will need 10 use the com-
positing procedure that is described in the section on
DeluxePaint.
Before we move on to the specific procedures for
outlining with each program, however, be aware that
each one handles outlining in its own unique way and
therefore each is capable of producing very different
kinds of outline effects. Figure 2, a composite of three
38 Men 1993
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PROCESSING TECHNIQUES
different outline images of the same original, provides
a graphic representation of this point.
PIXmate: Edge Detection
Load your posieri/ed image and convert it to gray
scale using Color Bias in the Color menu. Pull the S
slider (saturation) all the way down and click Use. Then
adjust the C (contrast) and I (intensity or brightness)
sliders for a good image. Click Use after each adjust-
ment. Don't over-adjust because yon may lose the very
parts of the picture you want outlined. Save this gray-
scale image to disk in case you mess up in the next step.
Do not overwrite the original posterized color image.
Next convert this gray scale to line art by selecting
Image Process under Effects. Practically every button
here will alter the edging process, allowing for an in-
finite variety of looks. For this project, set the Thresh-
old slider to 0, the Limit slider to 16, and the H its slid-
er to 1009c. The NOP (No Operation) box should be
highlighted in the Logic section.
Under the word "KERNAL" there are seven char-
acters, ranging from an asterisk to a slash mark. All of
these effect edging, but use + (plus sign) as a starting
point. Click the LDG box (edge detection) and PIX-
mate goes to work. When the light show is over you will
have a black image with white outlines. For black out-
lines and white background select Compliment in the
Color menu for a negative image. (Note: ."Ml the pro-
grams covered here provide in one fashion or anoth-
er for a choice of outline color — black on white or vice
versa — see Figure 3 for an example of both.) The Col-
or Bias adjustments will increase contrast and darken
grayed lines to black if desired before you save the
outline image to disk. It's okay to leave some grays in
the image; you can adjust them later with DeluxePaint
when you assemble the posterized and outline images
into a finished graphic.
ImageFX: Edge Detection
Load your posteri/.ed image. In the Toolbox menu
click Color and select Color To Gray, choosing the
weighting you desire. Then click Okay. Once the im-
age has been processed, render it with dithering set to
None as before, and save the "Rendered Image." Now
select Convolve and click F.dgc Detect. Try a setting of
30 on the Threshold slider and click Okay. If you don't
like the results, (he Undo button will restore your im-
age. The Balance button allows adjustment of contrast
(the Co slider) and brightness (the V slider). Using
these and various Threshold sellings will provide full
control. You can try adjusting contrast and brightness
after the edge detection is done to thicken faint gray
lines into good black outlines. If you want white out-
lines, selecting Color and then Negative will reverse
colors. Render and save the "Rendered Image."
Compositing this image with ImageFX can be a
complex process, and less experienced users may wish
to defer to DeluxePaint. If you do want to proceed, fol-
low these steps: With the outline image still visible, go
to Palette, click on Pick, and then click on the white
background in the image. If the RGB sliders Show
R=255, 0=25;"), and B=255, you're okay. If not, re-
process the image with more contrast until the back-
ground is pure white. When this is accomplished, click
Color and then Gray To Color. If you don't do this, the
compositing will not work properly. Now copy the im-
age to the swap buffer and load the color posterized
image. Selecting Swap Buffers will allow you to view the
outlined image again.
Now go to Palette, click on the whitest white in the
palette, select Pick, and click on the image's while back-
ground. The RGB sliders for this color should read
R=255, G=255, and B=255. Click the ranges or the
All button until ii reads Rl. Make this white color in
the palette a one-color range for Rl. If this is done *■
Figure 2. A composite of three outline images generated from the
same original color picture of the race car from the opening
illustration. Note how each program produces very different outline
effects. You can also vary these effects within a single program
depending on the settings for contrast, brightness, and other
variables that you choose.
Figure 3. You can produce your finished image with either black
outlines or white outlines, depending on the darkness or lightness
of the color image.
AmigaWorld 39
IMAGE- PROCESSING TECHNIQUES
properly, the white palette color will have a clash across
it. If you have white outlines, substitute the black back-
ground color lor the above operations and adjust val-
ues accordingly (R=0, G=0, 11=0).
Go back to the Toolbox, click Composite, and select
Matte. Using the Transparency controls, set the In-
clude button for Rl, the Exclude button for None, the
Closeness slider for about 200 to 230, and then click
Merge. Set the Merge Percentage slider for 1007c and
click Okay. When the merge is done, render the im-
age in 16 colors with dithering set to None. Save the
"Rendered Image" and you're clone.
Imagemaster: Line-Art Conversion
Imagemaster again offers multiple choices, providing
both a Line Art function that does gray scale and line-
art at the same time, and an Edge Line (unction that
avoids gray scale and compositing. Figure 4 shows an
example of the results of each of these two methods.
Following the fust approach, load the posterized
image, go to the Process Panel and click Special Effects,
and then select Line Art and Kntirc Image. Set the
Threshold slider to about 50 and click the BKAV but-
ton. For a black outline click the Black Line button; for
a white outline leave this button off. Now click Done
to commence rendering. Before saving (Render To
File) the image, choose Set Render Palette, select Gen-
erate New Palette, and then set the Number Of Reg-
isters slider to 2 lor a two-color black-and-white file.
Edge Line, also found under Special Effects, will per-
form an outline directly on the color image. With the
posterized image loaded and Edge Line selected, click
B&W and try slider settings of Edge Line at 75% and
Threshold at 20. The Black Line button functions the
same as above. Click Done to render and save your im-
age. "That's all: No further compositing is required.
If you used the Line Art function above, Imagemas-
ter can composite ihe images. Load the posterized im-
Figure 4. Imagemaster offers two distinctly different outlining
approaches: The top-left area was done with Posterize, Line Art,
and compositing; the lower right with Contour and Edge Line,
which requires no compositing.
age first, and then load the outline image — selecting
New As Secondary when the requester pops up. In the
Compose Panel, choose Color Keyed Compositions
and then Keyed Sec Max Rub Thru. Set the Red,
Green, and Blue sliders all at 255 for a white back-
ground (black outlines), or all at for a black back-
ground (white outlines). Set the Var slider at 20. Click
Done and Entire Image. Be sure to choose Generate
New Palette under Set Render Palette before render-
ing to disk (saving) the composited image.
ADPro: Line-Art Operations
Load your posterized image and set the Dither button
to Off. Execute the Color' ToGray operator for gray-
scale conversion. Set the Screen Controls to the screen
format of your finished picture, and the Color button
lo Hi. Click on Execute to render the image to screen.
If you need contrast or brightness adjustments, use
the Balancing controls. Don't forget to use the Apply
Map operator afterwards to make the new settings take
effect Render and save the color image (not the 24-
bil image) to disk, and then reload ii. This forces AD-
Pro to work from the processed image, not the origin-
al image data.
Now select the Line Art operator and Execute Op.
Render the outline image to screen. Again, you may
want to adjust contrast or brightness lo eliminate grav
lines or make them darker. An optional way to elimi-
nate grays is to set the Screen Controls Color box for
two colors and lerender as a two-color image. Save
your color image to disk for compositing next.
Be aware that ADPro's Line Art operator makes the
image two pixels smaller vertically and horizontally, so
care must be taken to proper!) align the images in the
combining step. As with lmagef'X, less experienced
users will find that this type of compositing is simpler
with Deluxel'aint.
For ADPro to properly composite this project at all,
you must load and resave the outline image through
DeluxePaint. While in Deluxel'aint, check the palette
and set the background to pure white (all RGB sliders
at 15) and the outline to pure black (RGB = 0), or vice
versa. Now save this image over the original outline
file. Return to ADPro and load the color posterized im-
age first. Then click the Replc (replace) button, chang-
ing it to Com)) (compositing), and load I he outline im-
age. The Composition Control requester will appear.
You must adjust the Offset X and Offset Y boxes to
properly align the images. The amount of adjustment
can vary depending on original image size and the
available sizes within DeluxePaint. Usually an offset of
2 for both X and Y is correct, Set the Mix box to 100.
At this point, the R, G, and B boxes will probably read
-1 . Delete these and type 255 in all three boxes, mak-
ing the pure white background transparent during
compositing. II vou are using white outlines and black
background, set lire R, G, and B boxes io and click
on OK. The outline image will be loaded and com-
posited with the color image. Render this composited
image lo screen. If the outline and color areas are not
properly aligned, recomposite the two images with the
Olfset X and Offset Y adjusted to compensate for the
shift you now see. When done, save the color image.
Digi-View/Transfer 24: Outline Art
This is my favorite method for outlining. I can stop the ►
40 Mm 1993
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I M A fi
PROCESSING T E C II X I Q H K S
process Lit any point with a mouse click and try differ-
ent settings without undoing or reloading, making ex-
perimentation quick and easy. Novice users will find
the simple sparseness of billions and gadgets is less
confusing than the more feature-packed programs al-
ready covered.
Open the program in die screen resolution of your
color image and set Dithering to Off in the Control
requester to maintain the posterized look. Click the
Default button to ensure all sliders are at zero. Load
your posterized image, select the BW button for gray-
scale conversion, and click Display to see bow the
whole thing looks. Adjust the brightness and contrast
sliders to suit your taste and save the image in case
you mess up later. Be sure you don't overwrite the col-
or version.
Click Default again and reload the gray-scale im-
age, forcing Digi-Yiew to use the new image data.
Push the Sharp (sharpness) slider all the way up to
48. Now click Display and view the result. Adjust the
contrast and brightness sliders to help eliminate gray
areas in the image. This may also make the lines
thicker. Click Display with each change to test your
new settings. As a final option you can set the Palette
requester color slider for two colors, or click the Line
Art button for a two-color image. Save this outline art
to disk.
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DELUXEPAINT WILL EASILY assemble the color
and outline images into the finished product. Experi-
enced DeluxePaint users can find two or three ways to
accomplish every step in this assembly process. Be-
cause some users may not have a one-meg Agnus chip,
we'll use the most memory-efficient method.
Open DeluxePaint in the screen formal of vour col-
or image. Load the black-and-white outline image first.
If the message "Do you want to change formal to that
of file?" appeais, click No. lithe image contains grays,
go to the the Stencil requester, click on the darker
gray shades you wish to keep, and click Make Stencil.
Select the brightest white (R= 15, G= 1 5, B= 1 5) in the
palette below your Tools menu as the current back-
ground color by clicking on it with the right mouse but-
ton. Now clear the screen. The light grays will be
cleared to white, but the dark grays and black locked
with the Stencil remain. If too many lines disappear,
select Undo, lock some additional lighter grays in the
Stencil requester, and try it again.
When the desired light shades have all been changed
to white, go to the Stencil requester, click Invert, and
then click Make Stencil. This will lock the light shades.
Select pure black (R=0, G=Q, B=0) as the current
background color and clear the screen again. You now
have a pure black-and-white outline image. Be sure to
turn off Stencil when done.
To combine the images, go to the spare screen and
load the color posterized image. Go back to the main
screen and check the outline image. If the outline col-
or has changed, you should apply Stencil lo all col-
ors except the outline color. Select black (or white as
desired) from the palette and draw a solid rectangle
over the entire screen. This will paint the outlines and
not affect any other color on the screen. Again, turn
off Stencil.
If the background has changed to some other col-
or, it's okay. Simply make white, or whatever color it
changed to, your current background color by clicking
the right mouse button on it as before. While still look-
ing at the outline image screen, go to the Picture menu
and select the Spare/Merge In Back submenu. The col-
or image on the spare screen will merge in place of the
background i olor. leaving the outlines over the image.
Now you have the completed graphic.
But DPaint Does It, Too!
As you can see, compositing with DeluxePaint is easv.
Earlier we converted and posterized the image with
DeluxePaint, but that's not all the program can do. Al-
though we've used several relatively complex image-
processing programs to perform edge detection or
outlining, DeluxePaint III, IY, or AGA will give you the
same outline effects. Here's how.
Once the image has been posterized with Deluxe-
Paint. carefully choose a few colors in the image that
cover areas you want outlined (live to eight colors will
do nicely). Now Stencil all colors except one of your
chosen colors and pick up the whole screen as a rec-
tangular brush. Turn off the Stencil, select black or
white as the current brush color, and press the o key
twice. This puts a two-pixel -wide outline around the
brush image. Now stamp the outlined brush exactly
back where it came from. If you do this for each of your
chosen colors, you will have a complete posterized,
outlined graphic without having to do gray-scaling or
compositing. The only drawback to this method is that
picking up a whole screen as a brush eats up a lot of
chip RAM.
One important caveat here for video buffs: Never
use this technique for video if you have outlines one-
pixel thick. The image will flicker like crazy on a com-
posite monitor and look extremely unprofessional.
Take time to thicken the outlines before (or after)
merging them with the color image. Using Deluxe-
Paint, either pick up the lines as a brush without back-
ground or use Stencil to exclude the other tools. Use
the o key or stamp the outlines back down shifted one
pixel vertically, horizontally, or both.
Following the steps outlined here (no pun intend-
ed), you can produce this technique both with a vari-
ety of trusty old standbys or with some less familiar but
high-powered new- image-processing programs. The
only real expertise required lies in selecting a good im-
age to work with. The rest is simply taking advantage
of the wonderful graphics software available for the
Amiga. And we haven't used up all the magic by any
means. There are many more interesting, striking ef-
fects vou can trv with these programs. It just requires
experimentation. I hope this article has given you the
courage to delve deeper into the graphics magic of the
Amiga. ■
Fred Hurieau spent 12 years as a commercial artist prior to
opening an Amiga-based video and graphics stadia where he
produces corporate, educational, and commercial materials,
including training videos for Amiga products and techniques.
He teaches Amiga graphics and animation classes at Pem-
broke State University in North Carolina.
42 Mm i l J93
The A W Amiga Fonts
Buyer's
Guide
PART 1
WHILE THE AMIGA is recognized as the
leading video/multimedia platform in the
desktop field, its capabilities for produc-
ing text and graphics for high-quality
printed documents are much less well
known. Although it still does not enjoy
the reputation of the Mac and MS-DOS platforms, the
Amiga has recently been making significant headway
as a serious desktop-publishing (DTP) tool.
Some of this new-found publishing strength stems
from improved font-handling routines in the new re-
leases (2.0, 2.1, and S.O) of AmigaDOS, as well as from
improvements and new additions to the stable of Ami-
ga DTP software. But a lion's share of the credit must
go the tremendous growth in the number of high-qual-
ity fonts now available for use with the Amiga.
One of the essential components in a finished doc-
ument is the quality of the typesetting. Printed text is
much less forgiving than video tilling, requiring much
higher resolution, better quality letterform design,
more graceful letter and word spacing, and careful de-
sign and placement of the text and graphic elements
on the page. In the early days, the Amiga was equipped
with only fairly coarse bitmapped fonts, which were
not suitable for quality typesetting. Things have
changed dramatically, however, and today's Amiga
users enjoy a wide range of options for creating pro-
fessional-quality typeset documents.
In Part I of our buyer's guide, we will focus on so-
called "structured" (or "outline") fonts, which have
been specifically designed to give smooth, j aggie-free
output. Bitmapped fonts, so useful for video produc-
tion, will be covered next month in Part 2.
A Word About Standards
Someone once said, "The nice thing about standards
is that there are so many to choose from!" Whether
you're using an Amiga, a Mac, or an MS-DOS-com-
patible computer, one thing that becomes clear very
quickly is that there are a lot of nonstandard "stan-
dards" among outline fonts. All outline fonts are sim-
ilar in that they consist of letter shapes made from
mathematical]}' defined lines and curves, but different
developers have attempted to establish competing,
proprietary (and often incompatible) formats. All of
these outline fonts, however, are a bit like electronic
rubber: The basic letter form can be stretched to a va-
riety of sizes and still print out smoothly, and de-
pending on the program with which it is used, struc-
tured text can be rotated, squeezed, twisted, and
manipulated in a wide variety of ways.
There are two main kinds of outline fonts, originally
developed for MS-DOS and Mac systems and now
available on the .Amiga. These are Agfa Compugraphic
Intellifonts and Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts. In ad-
dition, three very good and very popular Amiga pro-
grams, Final Copy (Softwood), Saxon Publisher (Sax-
on Industries), and PageStream (Soft-Logik), each
offer their own proprietary structured-font formats.
There are a number of other structured font formats
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available on other computer platforms (includingTvpe
3 PostScript, Bitstream, and TrueType). While some of
these can be converted into an Amiga-usable form (see
"The ABCs of Amiga Fonts," p. 51, in last month's is-
sue), they are not used all that often on the Amiga. I'"or
now, we'll concentrate on the two major and three mi-
nor structured-font formats with which virtually all se-
rious .Amiga DTP is currently being done.
What follows in the remainder of this article is de-
signed to help you in two ways: The rest of the main
text will explain the different approaches taken by
each of the developers of the various structured-font
formats — with an eye towards showing you what each
has to offer (or not oiler) for your type and printing
needs. The "Mini-Buyer's Guide" sidebar will pre-
sent specific type collections available in these for-
mats — plus several font-conversion utilities you may
find useful.
Gold Disk Strikes First:
compugraphic intei.ufonts
Until now, most Amiga DTP fonts have been created
on other computer platforms and then converted into
an Amiga-usable format. When Gold Disk introduced
the Professional Page (current version 4.0, S295) DTP
program in 1987, Pro Page used only bitmapped
screen fonts and metric tables that it had licensed from
Adobe, the creator of the PostScript page-description
language. Without actual Amiga-format versions of the
fonts. Pro Page users were limited to creating a rough
approximation of the text on their Amiga monitor
screens, and then getting a printout by sending in-
structions from the Amiga to the output device (a Post-
Script-compatible laser printer or Linotron typeset-
ting machine). The actual structured Adobe louts were
resident on the printer, not the Amiga.
This was okay if you were satisfied with the 35 Post-
Script fonts that were installed on ROM chips on most
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Gold Disk's Pro Page allows users to take dozens of Compugraphic
Inteltifont faces and convert them to Pro Draw, downloadable Post-
Script, or Amiga Bitmap formats.
PostScript laster printers. If you wanted to use any oth-
er fonts, however, you had to buy them in Mac- or MS-
DOS-disk formal, download tlieni (nun a Mac or an
MS-DOS computer to the printer's memory, and then
prim your Amiga document — in effect, requiring vou
to have a second computer hooked up to the printer.
Gold Disk got around this problem in late 1988 by
licensing Agfa Compugraphic' s "Iniellifont" technol-
ogy, which offered any number of advantages. First, be-
cause the fonts were actually converted to Amiga-disk
formal, they could be loaded onto the Amiga and then
downloaded to the printer along with the document.
That meant you no longer needed a Mac or an MS-
D( )S computer (or bridgeboard). Also, rather than us-
ing an inaccurate, coarse bitmapped version of the
font. Ink'llilypc fonts actually "printed" the lellerform
to the Amiga monitor screen, as well as to the primer,
giving you a much more accurate WYSIWYG (What
You See Is What You Get) display, than the older style
Adobe screen fonts.
In addition, (.old Disk developed a font-conversion
utility that allowed users of Amiga Intcllitvpe fonts to
convert the basic typesetting fonts into Professional
Draw (current version 3.0, $199.95) format (to allow
users to do such sophisticated text effects as bending
and warping), as well as to convert the structured fonts
into Amiga bitmapped format for use in video or paint
programs. Not only dial, the Intellifont structured
fonts could also be output to dot-matrix orinkjet print-
ers to the maximum resolution of those devices. This
meant that cheap non-PostScript printers could be
used for proofing, or even for final output if quality re-
quirements were modest.
One limitation of the original Gold Disk Iniellifont
offering was the limited number of fonts in Amiga for-
mat. Gold Disk has continued to license additional
fonts, so that it now provides a reasonably good basic
assortment of more than ISO fonts; the company states
that it will add additional typefaces to its library "as de-
mand warrants. "
Commodore picked up on the benefits of the Com-
pugraphic Intellifonl technology and included it as a
part of the AmigaDOS 2.0 operating system. Most 2.0-
compatible programs, such as the current version of
Kleclrouic Arts' DelitxePaint, support bitmapped ver-
sions of Intellifonts. With 2.0's Fountain program, vou
can make bitmapped versions of any Compugraphic
font — in user-selectable sizes. AmigaDOS supports Post-
Script output directly through the PrinterPS program
in AmigaDOS 2.1 and above. PrinterPS offers a fairly
wide range of output options, although there have been
some incompatibility' problems, especially with older
Amiga programs, as well as bugs with die PrinterPS pro-
gram itself. (For more on the new font-handling im-
provements to release 2 of .AmigaDOS, see Parts 4 and
5 of the series "Digging in to DOS," Feb, "93, p. 55, and
Mar. '93, p. (55, respectively.)
Soit-Logik: PostScript . . .
and a Whole Lot More
Soft-Logik. t lie publishers of PageStream (current ver-
sion 2.2, S299.95), initiallv had some problems with the
bugginess of early Amiga versions of its software. This
limited PageStrcanfs acceptance among professional
Amiga desktop publishers for awhile, in spite of its ex-
tensive list of high-end typesetting features. However,
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in ihe course of making PageStream more robust, Soft-
Logik also included even more extensive font Options
than are to be Found in Gold Disk's Professional Page
program.
Currently, PageStream offers its own proprietary
structured-font format, plus compatibility with Adobe
Type 1 and Type 3 PostScript fonts, as well as with
Compugraphic fonts. In addition, Soft-Logik provides
avast assortment of PostScript fouls in .Amiga-disk for-
mat. In terms of font selection and typographic con-
trol options, PageStream is unquestionably the leading
Amiga DTP program, and it compares quite favorably
with publishing software on other platforms.
Recently, Soft-Logik released Art Expression
(S2-I9), a direct competitor to Gold Disk's Profession-
al Draw structured-illustration and text-manipulation
program. It is compatible with Type 1 PostScript fonts
(MS-DOS formal only), which means that thousands of
fonts are available for use with it. (For a complete re-
view of Art Expression, see Apr. '93, p. 2S.)
Even more recently, Soft-Logik has done a great fa-
vor to the Amiga desktop-publishing community by an-
nouncing the imminent release of the first full-fea-
tured professional Amiga outline-font editor.
TypeSmith ($ 1 99.95) will allow users to create outline
Soft-Logik's forthcomimg TypeSmith program allows users to create
new outline fonts from scratch or [as pictured above] to modify
existing ones.
Mini-Buyer's Guide to Amiga
DTP Fonts and Font Utilities
WHILE THE FOLLOWING is not
a complete list of what's available
in the way of structured fonts
and font utilities for Amiga DTI'.
it tlocs include most of the more common-
ly available commercial products. In addi-
tion to the fonts already available in Ami-
ga-disk format, the font-conversion utilities
listed at the end of the guide will enable you
to convert many of the more than 27,000
PostScript lotus available on Mac and MS-
DOS platforms into Amiga format.
FONT COLLECTIONS
Gold Disk Type
CG Outline Fonts
Gold Disk
Gold Disk supplies several font libraries in
Agfa Compugraphic Intellifbnt format. .As
well as the approximately 60 fonts that are
available in these sets from your Amiga
dealer, Gold Disk sells directly several
dozen other typefaces "on request." Using
the included CreateFont utilitv, you can
take the basic Intellifont format and convert
it to Professional Draw, downloadable Post-
Script, and Amiga Bitmap formats.
The Agfa fonts install easily and provide
very accurate and detailed screen displays,
generally good clot-matrix printer output,
and excellent high-resolution PostScript
output. The huellifonl format is also sup-
ported directly by AniigaDOS 2.0 and high-
er. The only drawback to the Intellifont for-
mat is that it isn't the industry "standard"
for outline fonts (effectively, Adobe Type 1
is the closest thing to a standard there is).
There are only a couple of hundred fonts
available in Agfa format, and while the of-
ferings are of excellent technical quality and
cover the most commonly used typefaces,
the selection is not increasing rapidly. ►■
TYPE:
CG Century Schoolbook
CG: Futura Bold
CG TIMES ROMAN
Examples of some standard Agfa Compugraphic Intellifonts from Gold Disk,
developer of Pro Page DTP software.
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fonts from scratch or modify existing ones. (See the
"Mini-Buyer's Guide" for more on TypeSmith.)
Saxon and Softwood:
Strong Supporting Roles
Saxon Publisher (current version 1 .2, $299), an un-
fairly obscure DTP program from Saxon Industries,
has its own structured-font format, as well as being
compatible with Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts. In
addition, Saxon Industries has recently released a
unique program, SaxonScript Professional, which is a
powerful PostScript interpreter that lets you use non-
PostScript devices such as dot-matrix printers and
non-PostScript laser printers as though they were full-
fledged PostScript printers. The company also claims
that the program supports a wide range of PostScript
fonts, and oilers a sizable array of font-conversion op-
lions. (See the "Mini-Buyer's Guide" for more on Sax-
onScript.)
SoflWood's Final Copy II (599.9;")) word-processing
software provides the lasl and perhaps the most inde-
pendeni-tninded of all the lout offerings described
here. Final Copy II has its own structured-font format,
with Softwood including a decent range of fonts with
the program, as well as selling additional packages of
fonts on request. One of the principal advantages of
Mini-Buyer's Guide (continued)
It would have been better for Amiga DTP
users if Gold Disk (and Commodore) had
settled on Adobe Type 1 fonts as the stan-
dard, but for various historical reasons, this
opportunity was passed up in 1985, when,
unlike Apple, Commodore declined to in-
vest in Adobe technology.
One serious weakness of Gold Disk's han-
dling of the whole Com issue is dial its Font
Manager conversion utility (which is pro-
vided as part of Professional Page 4.0, Page-
Setter 3, and Professional Draw 3.0, and is
supposed to be able to convert Adobe Type
1 fonts into formats usable in the various
Gold Disk DTP programs) simply doesn't
work very well — either simply refusing to
work or hanging up ana' "Zzzz-ing" indef-
initely. It failed lo convert most Adobe Type
I fonts that 1 tried it with, Gold Disk tech
support simply suggested thill the fonts I
was trying to convert "weren't standard
Type 1 format." These same fonts, howev-
er, all worked fine with PageSiream.
Prices for Gold Disk font packages range
from S36 for a single family, to StiO for a set
of three decorative display fonts, to $199 for
;i set of the basic 35 fonts commonly found
on PostScript laser printers.
Newsletter Font Pack
Starter Font Pack
Classic Font Pack
Designer Font Pack
Soft-Logik
PS1: Nuevarese Bold Italic
PS1: PQSTCRYpT
PS S1©WB©*1
1: PARIS mETRO
TS1: Sparkle Swash
A wide variety of Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts are now available to Amiga
desktop publishers. [From Allied Studios' Pro Stream Plus collection.]
Through an arrangement with Image Club,
a major vendor of PostScript fonts, Soft-
l.ogik sells a vast assortment or good qual-
ity PostScript fonts (more than 200 cur-
rently listed) and structured clip-art in
Amiga-disk format. These fonts work very
well with the company's PageStream and
Art Expression programs. They can also be
imported into Soft-Logik's new TypeSmith
font editing/design program for specialized
modification. In addition, they can be con-
vened into Pro Page or Pro Draw formats
using Minor Image's MIFont and MlOut-
line utilities, respectively (see "Font Utili-
ties" below).
Prices for the Soft-I.ogik Library collec-
tions arc: Starter Fonts and Newsletter
Finns, S99.95 each (eight fonts per set);
Classic louts and Designer Fonts, SI 99,95
each (16 fonts per set).
ProStream Plus
Western Fonts
Fancy Fonts
Condensed Fonts
Allied Studios
The ProSlrenni Plus collection of 70 Type
1 PostScript fonts is the class act of third-
party DTP font offerings for the Amiga. A
labor of love, diese fonts show obvious ev-
idence of great care and hard work in every
aspect. They were also a breeze to install
(ProStream Plus was the only piece of soft-
ware reviewed for this article that was en-
tirely idiot-proof — an extremely important
feature for any software this reviewer has to
learn) and the fonts worked perfectly. The
package includes two separate versions of
all fonts: one for Professional Page and one
for PageStream. This overcomes the usual
problem of ProPage's notorious fmickyness
about non-Intellifont typefaces.
Numbered among the 70 fonts included
are some of the best of the public-do-
main/shareware display typefaces available,
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FONTS
Final Copy II's font system is that it seems vers- fast, es-
pecially on Amigas with slower processors. For a word
processor, Final Copy II has very powerful page-layout
and graphics-handling features, and fairly compre-
hensive PostScript output capabilities. For many users
whose needs fall short of high-end commercial type-
setting requirements. Final Copy II offers all the DTP
power yon will likely need. (For a complete review of
Final Copy II, see Feb. '93, p.74.)
The rapid progress in the development of Amiga
fonts has meant that Amiga DTP users now enjoy font
options comparable to those available on any other
computer platform. Ranging from the sophistication
of PageStream and Professional Page (and their assoc-
iated illustration programs) to the simplicity, speed,
and economy of Final Copy II, there is a comprehen-
sive array of fonts and page-makeup tools that can
handle the full range of professional typesetting and
illustration needs. ■
Jeff Evans co-founded Canada's first microcomputer-based
typesetting company in J 984, and has used the Amiga for
animation and design since 1985. He teaches in Toronto,
edits Liquid Image Multimedia magazine, and is a writer
for TV Ontario's Prisoners of Gravity sci-fi series.
and publisher Lion Kuntz includes acknowl-
edgements of the creators of each of die
faces. Kuntz, one or the pioneer Amiga type
designers, did some of the first decent Ami-
ga bitmapped fonts back around 1986-1987,
and he continues to render a great service to
Amiga users. While the program's excellent
install routine is installing your fonts for you,
you can sit back and peruse the included
ReadMe file in which Runt/, makes some very
pertinent editorial comments on current is-
sues and problems relating to Amiga font
technology and DTP generally.
With a retail price of S70, ProStrcam Plus
is a definite bargain.
Kuntz also publishes Western Fonts, Fan-
cy Fonts, and Condensed Fonts — PostScript
packages containing 16, 14, and 19 fonts, re-
spectively. The Condensed set was not avail-
able for review at the time of this writing, but
should be shipping by publication lime. West-
cm and Fancy Fonts ($30 each) both feature
attractive display fonts that are (tin to use. If
you need high-quality decorative faces at a
low cost, these packages are a good choice.
Kuntz will also convert any of the 27,000
available PostScript and TrueType fonts into
Amiga formal on an "as requested" custom
basis, and, if you wish, he will also add cus-
tom logos to your fonts for a fee.
Fontmania
80 Track Software
distributed fry InSync Digital Corp,
The largest collection of Amiga Adobe- Type
I fonts (300 in all), Fontmania is a vast 15-
disk set of public-domain offerings. The
louts are not as easy to install on Profes-
sional Page as Allied Studios' ProStream are,
but they do install quite nicely on
PageStream and Saxon Publisher. At
S84.95, Fontmania represents an excellent
value and should also silence anyone who
still claims that "there aren't any PostScript
fonts for the Amiga,"
PageStream Fonts
Dennis Palumbo
Type designer Dennis Palumbo has created
an excellent series of high-quality oudine
fonts compatible with PageSu-eam's propri-
etary font format. (Please note that only
Disks 1 and 2 of this five-disk set were eval-
uated for this article.) They installed easily
and worked perfectly. The fonts provided
excellent dot-matrix, as well as PostScipt,
output.
With the release of Disk 5, Palumbo in-
tends to convert all the fonts to Adobe Type
1 format, which would make them easily
convertible — via utilities sucb as MI Font and
MlOudine — to Pro Page and Pro Draw for-
mats, respectively.
Priced at $34.9;") each, all disks conic with
three fonts, and there is a discount of 30%
if you purchase the complete five-disk set.
FONT UTILITIES
MIFont
MlOudine
Mirror Image Productions
MIFont and MlOudine comprise a set of ex-
cellent utilities for converting PostScript
fonts into formats usable with Professional
Page and Professional Draw, respectively.
Unlike Gold Disk's Pont Manager, which is
supposed to do the same thing, these utilit-
ies are robust and reliable.
I found the MlOudine program indis-
pensable for adding to my library of avail-
able fonts for Pro Draw. Installing and using
both programs are easy, and each per-
formed exactly as billed. Prices: MIFont —
$105; MlOudine— S125.
SaxonScript Professional
Saxon Industries
Released just recently, this utility should
prove very valuable as a handy PostScript
interpreter and conversion program (al-
though the early version that I used was
somewhat difficult to install). Supporting vir-
tually every imaginable file format and out-
put device, SaxonScript Professional (3130)
may become an essential tool for the serious
.Amiga desktop publisher.
For instance, Saxon Industries reports
that the program supports all PostScript
downloadable fonts (outline fonts that you
can download from the Amiga into the
printer's RAM) that are compatible with
PageStream, Pro Page, or Saxon Publisher.
The program also converts outline fonts into
Amiga bitmapped, Saxon Publisher, and
Adobe Type 1 PostScript formats, and
"prints" PostScript Hies to the Amiga screen
for a "soft" preview.
TypeSmith
Soft-Logik
TypeSmith is a full -featured oudine-font edit-
ing/design program — the first of its kind on
die Amiga. It is intended to let users create
new PostScript, Compugraphic, or Soft-Logik
outline fonts from scratch, or to edit existing
fonts in these formats. Structured objects
from Sofi-Logik's Art Expression can also be
imported to be used as characters.
Prior to the release of TypeSmith, an
.Amiga designer's only option was to auto-
trace a scanned bitmap of a letter or logo, or
to use the font editor in Dyna-CADD, a 3-D
CAD program from Ditek Int'l with some
good text-handling features. If the program
lives up to its advance billing, it could fill a
very annoying gap in the line-up of Amiga
DTP programs, and stimulate a wave of
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Digging in to DOS
A SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE AMIGA'S RELEASE 2 OPERATING SYSTEM
Our series' final installment
explains why AmigaDOS 2's
Commodities programs have nothing
Before Workbench
2.0 came along,
Amiga owners used a
hodge-podge of utility
programs to perform spe-
cialized functions involving
the mouse and keyboard. Dif-
ferent utilities would activate a
window as the mouse pointer
passed over it, assign text strings to
function keys, or launch programs with a
series of keystrokes. The problem w r as that these
background programs would often interfere with ap-
plications such as word processors that relied on the
Junction keys for their own purposes. Moreover, there
was no guarantee that two such programs wouldn't
both require the Alt-Fl key combination, for instance,
for different purposes.
Workbench 2.0 addresses this problem, providing
an officially sanctioned method for creating utility
programs that manipulate mouse and keyboard in-
put. This new facility makes it easier to create such
programs and minimizes the risk that they will inter-
fere either with applications programs or with each
other. The system software at the heart of this scheme
to do with wheat futures, but lots to
do with easy customization of
your system.
is the Commodities li-
brary, and programs
that make use of it are
called commodities. The
standard commodities
that Commodore supplies
are found in the Commodi-
ties drawer in the "Idols direc-
tor)' of your Workbench partition
(if you have a hard drive), or of the
Extras floppy disk.
Shared Values
While Commodities programs perform a wide range
of functions, they have certain features in common.
Each commodity is assigned a priority that deter-
mines which gets first crack at the input information.
This priority value usually defaults to zero, but you
can change it by editing the ToolTypes in the com-
modity's icon. You do this by clicking once on the
icon, and selecting Information from the Icons menu
on the Workbench. This brings up a window in which
you can edit the lines of text in the ToolTypes list. The
relevant line reads CX_PRIORITY=x, where x is the
priority number. *■
BY SHELDON LEEMON
ILLUSTRATED BY BARTON STABLER
AmiguWnrhl 49
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Another feature many commodities share is a control
window from which you can alter the programs' set-
tings. The CXPOPUP ToolType determines whether
or not this window appears when you first run the pro-
gram. If the Tooliype reads CX_POPUP=NO, the
program will run without opening its window, liven if
the window does not open automatically, however, each
commodity with a settings window also has a corre-
sponding key combination, designated in its CXJPOP-
KEY Tool Type, that can be used to make this window
appear. Because the descriptions of the key combina-
tions are relatively straightforward (the phrase "CTRL
-ALT B" describes the three keys you must press to bring
up tfie Blanker screen, for example), vou can easily
change them, or just read them from the Information
window if you forget what they are.
You can also bring up a Commodities Settings win-
dow by using the Exchange program. This program,
aiso located in the Commodities drawer, acts as a con-
trol center for all of your Commodities programs.
When you run Exchange, it displays a list of all of the
commodities that are currently running, lis gadgets al-
low you to show or hide the settings window for a par-
ticular program, deactivate or reactivate the program,
or remove the program from the list by sending it a
message to quit.
Choice Picks
Several standard Commodities programs come with
Workbench versions 2.0 and higher. One of the sim-
plest is AutoPoint, a program that activates any win-
dow over which the mouse pointer passes. This pro-
gram does not have a control window — you just
double-click on its icon to start it and double-click
again to turn it off.
The NoCapsLock program works much the same
way, but serves to disable the Caps Lock key. You can
still use the Shift keys, but with NoCapsLock running,
accidentally pressing the Claps Lock kev won't suddenly
shift you to ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
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screen if you don't ttse the mouse or keyboard for a cer-
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Windows on the world of Commodities: the contents of the main direc-
tory, the Commodities Exchange window, and the FKey requester.
monitor. Commodore's Commodities version is called
Blanker, and in its simplest form, it pops up a control
window into which you enter the number of seconds
of inactivity that you want to elapse before the screen
turns black. The 2.1 version adds a couple of options
to create screen activity so that you won't forget about
the blanker and think that your computer has suddenly
gone dead. The Cycle Colors opiion causes the screen
color to cycle through various shades, while the Ani-
mation option creates a moving pattern of lines that
whirl around the screen. If both options are selected,
the lines change color as they move. As with most com-
modities, ihe options are saved in the program icon,
using the "IbolTypes CYCLECOLORS=YES (or NO),
ANIMATION =YES (or NO), and SECONDS=x,
where x represents the number of seconds of inactivity
before Blanker activates.
Programs that add more keyboard shortcuts have al-
ways been popular, so it is no surprise that a couple of
these types of commodities are included. The IHelp
(short for Intuition Helper) program lets you use the
keyboard to perform a number of window-sizing and -
activation functions tfiat normally would require the
mouse. By default, the Fl key invokes the Cycle Win-
dows function, which brings the rearmost application
window on the Workbench screen to the front and ac-
tivates it. The F2 key enlarges the active window to its
maximum si/.e, while F3 shrinks it to its minimum; F4
cycles through possible sizes, as does clicking the Zoom
gadget. The E5 key cycles through screens, bringing
the rear screen to the front, as does the Left - Amiga- 1\ I
combination. You can change any of these defaults by
editing the IbolTypes in the program's icon. These de-
fault to CYCLE=F1, MAKEBIC = F2, MAKESMALL
=F3, CYCLESCREEN = F4, and ZIPWINDOW=F5.
Functionally Literate
The FKey commodity is the program that finally an-
swers the question "What do 1 do with those function
kevs. anyway?" FKey allows you to assign text to func-
tion keys (E1-F10) and shifted function keys. For ex-
ample, if you assign "Dir \n" to the F~l key. when you
press Fl at a Shell prompt, the function key will type-
in the Dir command and hit Return (the \n is the new
line command that automatically presses the Return
key at the end of the line). You can also assign special
keystrokes — such as the zero on the numeric
keypad — to a function key. This allows you to emulate
the numeric pad even on the Amiga 600, which does
not have these kevs.
fhe 2.1 version of FKey carries tins idea much fur-
ther. In this version, you can assign (unctions to virtu-
ally any key or combination of keys on the keyboard;
such functions are not restricted merely to inserting a
string of text characters, either. For example, you can
assign any of the IHelp functions (Cycle Windows, Cy-
cle Screens, Enlarge Window, Shrink Window, Toggle
Window Size) to anv key, thus eliminating the need for
a separate IHelp program. Like the popular public-do-
main program PopCLI, 2.1's FKey also allows you to
run a program or ARexx script just by pressing one or
more keys.
"fhe ClickToFront program allows you to bring a win-
dow to the front of the screen by double-clicking any-
where inside it, which can be very handy if the depth
gadget is not visible. By default, you must also press the
50 Mai 1993
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Left Alt key while double-clicking in order to move the
window. Yon can change this qualifier key, or eliminate
it entirely, by changing the QUALIFIER 53 ToolType.
Possible choices include Lall, Rait, Control, and None.
With the addition of the C.rossDOS file-exchange
program to Workbench 2.1 came a new CrossDOS
commodity. This program allows you to specily text fil-
tering of files read from an MS-DOS disk, such as
changing the carriage-return and line-feed combina-
tion used in MS-DOS text files to the simple line Iced
used in Amiga text files. A translation button also al-
lows you to do character translations, such as eliminat-
ing MS-DOS line-drawing characters that do not have
Amiga equivalents.
One new commodity made its debut in Workbench
3.0. MouseBlanker makes the mouse pointer invisible
whenever you are typing on the keyboard. This elimi-
nates the annoying situation in which the mouse point-
er hides what you are typing.
Commodities Futures
Although the Commodities scheme makes things eas-
ier for both the programmer and the user, it does exact
a cost in the form of increased overhead. I laving a
number' of Commodities programs running at the
same Lime means that the system may have to check
with each one every time you press a key or click the
mouse. While this should not cause a noticeable slow-
down under ordinary circumstances, it may if you run
lots of commodities on an unaccelerated machine. To
prevent this problem, Commodore software engineers
have indicated that they may integrate the functions of
some small Commodities programs, such as Click-
ToFront, directly into a future Kickslart version.
f'.ven if Commodore reduces the number of standard
commodities that it includes with Workbench, however,
there will still be an enormous number of public-do-
main and shareware Commodities programs. These in-
clude screen blankets, clocks, print spoolers, window
manipulators, text cut-and-paste utilities, and pro-
grams that add items to the Workbench Tools menu.
If the idea of performing complex tasks with a single
keystroke appeals to you, you'll find it worthwhile to
track down some of these programs. ■
Sheldon Leemon is a frequent contributor to AmigaWorld
mid mites for several other computer publications. He also
wrote the fourth edition of the AmigaDOS Reference
Guide (COMPUTE Books), a guide to using the CLl un-
der operating-system releases 2 and 3. When he's not
writing, you can often find him at Slipped Disk, a Detroit-
area Amiga dealership.
This article concludes our seven-part look at us-
ing tile new features of Workbench 2.0. Would
you like to see another series devoted to using sys-
tem software in a more general way? Please let us
know. Also let us know what topics you'd like in
see covered. Write to "DOS Column," AmigaWorld
Editorial, 80 Elm Sl„ Peterborough, NH 03458.
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#51
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A continuing scries
of tips, techniques,
and tricks for
creating more
imaginative Amiga
graphics.
By Joel Hagen
Fun & Games
With DTP
MANY AMIGA ARTISTS have never
really explored the world of desktop
publishing. I have fallen completely in
love with it, all hough 1 confess I use it
primarily for gags, fun, and hoaxes. (A
few of my "SAND FIRE WARNING"
signs can still be seen on bulletin
boards in Death Valley.) If'yon are new
to DTI', perhaps this column will give
you an overview of some fun ways you
can get involved.
Desktop-publishing software lets you
create professional-looking page lay-
outs on your home computer. You can
combine text, images, and other
graphic elements with powerful control
over size, composition, type style, and
so forth. Yon can then print your page
at any resolution your printer supports.
This means that you can bypass the
layout services of a prim shop and
produce high-quality ads, newsletters,
reports, and so on at your computer. If
you own a laser printer, you can print
fairly nice versions of these at 300 dpi.
A service bureau, of course, can print
them ai much higher resolutions for
tnilv professional results.
Most desktop-publishing programs
share similar' features. The accompany-
ing illustration shows the interface of
Soft-Logik's PageStream 2.21. That
particular version has been allrai lively
updated and streamlined. It is smooth
to work with and easy to learn. The
illustration shows a magnified area of
the page: the tools on the right and
menu bar above contain a multitude of
convenient features you can utilize to
create and modify clean page layouts.
Shown here are two examples of mixed
text and graphics such as you might
use in a letterhead or business logo.
PageStream. Professional Page (Gold
Disk), and other DTP programs come
with several basic fonts included. More
exotic display fonts such as the ones
shown here arc available from other
sources and can be great fun to play
with. Fonts are available in public-
domain collections, online via modem
downloads, and in commercial pack-
ages. One particularly good source of
display fonts is Allied Studios (see p. 92
for address and phone number), which
supplies bundles of fonts for both
PageStream and Pro Page at reason-
able prices. The variety should he
enough to keep any font-hungry desk-
top designer satisfied for some time.
(Editor's Note: AW is presenting a compre-
hensive, two-part Buyer's Guide to Amiga
Fonts, beginning with DTP fonts in this
issue, p. 43.)
If you use a lot of these complex
display fonts, however, you may find
that vour printer refuses to process the
page. This can usually be remedied. In
PageStream, for example, you can
bring up the Configure Printer re-
quester from the Global menu. Enter
"auto-unload" under Special and select
the Save Default button. Each font will
be dumped from the printer memory
when a new font loads.
"Zing Went the
Strings of My Art . . ."
Typefaces are not always letters of the
alphabet. Fonts such as Zingers, Ding-
bats, Ornaments, and other special sets
have ornate pictures, symbols, and
border designs in place of letters. The
Viking ship in the illustration, for
example, is typed to the screen when
you press the u key in one of Allied's
Zinger fonts. Having a selection of
these clean little graphic spots available
as fonts is often handier than sorting
through disks of clip art.
The sun image in the Planet Produc-
tions logo was created using techniques
discussed at greater length in Accent
#4\\ (see Sept. '92, p. 44). The sun was
drawn in DeluxePaint's (Electronic
Arts) high-resolution mode, then con-
verted to a scalable PostScript object
using the Trace program included with
Gold Disk's Professional Draw. This
gives an interesting "woodcut" charac-
ter to the primed image that is difficult
62 Mm 1993
Whether for serious business purposes or just for a little light-hearted diversion,
specialized desktop-publishing projects can be a lot of fun.
to achieve with standard drawing soft-
ware. The ability to convert painted or
scanned line art into clean, high-reso-
lution printed graphics is a powerful
feature of desktop-publishing opera-
tions thai can become addictive to any
computer artist.
There are also many materials avail-
able now to DTP artists thai expand
the options al the printout stage. Paper
companies are paying attention lo the
growing phenomenon of desktop pub-
lishing and are producing preprinted
and die-cut stock suitable for laser
printers. You can even buy packs of
paper printed with marble texture,
color gradients, headlines, and a vari-
ety of colorful designs ready to run
through your laser printer or copier.
You can buy laser-ready adhesive
backed labels in a variety of sizes and
shapes. Also available at paper supply
outlets are die-cut laser sheets of
Rolodex cards, doorknob hanger signs,
badge making kits, and other specialty
items.
An even more unique option you
might want to try is the hot-foil effect.
Allied Studios and other sources sell
packs of a special foil designed to be
used with laser printers and most
copiers. A piece of the special foil can
be fastened to a laser printout and run
through the machine a second time.
The heal and pressure of die rollers
causes the foil to adhere only to the
printed areas. The unused foil is sim-
ply peeled off. You have to see this
effect to believe it. My favorite varia-
tion is the hologram diffraction foil.
For either business or fine-art experi-
ments, this is an amazing trick. Be
aware, however, that while using foil is
a proven technology, it is not what
laser printers were intended to do — so
be cautious.
If you put your imagination lo work,
there really are no limits to the kinds
of fun projects possible with an Amiga,
DTP software, and a laser printer (even
KageStrean U2.21
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This screen from PageStream shows a magnified area of a page layout. Display fonts
and the Viking ship are from Allied Studios collections. The sun image was painted in
DPaint and then converted to a scalable object with Pro Draw's Trace program.
dot-matrix results looks pretty good.)
Anything you do looks official. You can
Crank out fortune-cookie messages,
signs for your kid's door, personalized
jam and pickle labels, KGB letter-
heads, bumper stickers, Foreign Leg-
ion draft notifications . . . the mind
boggles. Every now and then I attend a
conference where I want lo have a
business card containing information
relevant lo that particular situation. In
an liour on my Amiga I can whip out a
lew sheets of unique cards or letter-
heads for the occasion. Tricks like the
hot-foil effect are perfect for these
limited special runs.
Back in the gag department, you
could try using the ideas mentioned
here to print fake can labels ol'KJingon
Chile (or whatever) and glue them over
real cans from the supermarket. I have
spent some fine afternoons hanging
around the generic-food aisle watching
people's reaction to a stack of corn
cans 1 bought, relabeled, and then
slipped back onto the shelf. 'Hie ulti-
mate satisfaction is hearing a checker's
voice over the loudspeaker asking,
"Price check on Anteater Surprise?" ■
Joel Hagen's credits include work in art,
astronomy, science fiction, and software
development. Write to him at 10512
Sawyer, Oakdeile, C-f 95361. Please
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope
for a reply.
/! m iga World 63
Adding Sound
Simply
At last, desktop-video production embraces audio-
without requiring acrobatics.
By Steve Gillmor
AMIGA DEVELOPMENT HAS often
overlooked the fact that desktop video
includes sound as well as visuals. Now,
new tools allow Toaster users to inte-
grate video and audio in an automated
post-production environment.
The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks has
just released Bars&Pipes Professional
2.0, which adds powerful multimedia
extensions to the original MlDI-se-
quencing software. Video producers
will appreciate the new Media Mad-
ness module, which lets you control
multimedia devices on unlimited,
simultaneous tracks alongside the
music. Add Blue Ribbon's One-Stop
Music Shop 16-bit E-Mu sampler-on-
a-card (S649) and SunRize Industries'
Studio L6/AD516 stereo digital-audio
system (SI 495) and you have all the
elements under Bars & Pipes' time-
line control.
Media Madness supports many de-
vices and formats directly (see "A Show
of Strength," Apr. '93, p. 30, for de-
tails), and its Command Performance
tool can control others via ARexx and
the serial port We'll limit this discus-
sion to the Toasty tool, which controls
Toaster transitions, and the SunRize
Virtual Track tool.
On Top of Ol' Toaster
The Media Madness window integrates
multimedia tools into Bars&Pipes,
displaying each track horizontally as a
timeline with vertical SMITE (hours,
minutes, seconds, frames) or music
time reference marks. Unlike
Bars&Pipes' main Track window where
you can place multiple tools, each Me-
dia Madness (rack holds just one tool.
After installing the tools you need in
the Toolbox, you add one to a track
by dragging it from the Toolbox over
the default Output icon. Then you
open its Control window to customize
the tool.
The Toasiv tool's Control window
displays much of the familiar Toaster
Switcher interface along the top of the
window, with names replacing icons
for the banks of Switcher commands.
Media Madness Control windows
translate each tool's commands into
the common musical Bars&Pipes lan-
guage by assigning each event to a
specific MIDI note. The Hit List
Translation mechanism gives a textual
description to each note; in the Toasty
tool's case, C5 becomes Shatter or
Sheep, C#5 is Smooth Eade or Tear
Page, and so on. Each note can have
up to six Toaster commands, so you
can bunch related commands to set up
your Program and Preview video in-
puts, for example, or choose a transi-
tion and activate it with the Auto com-
mand. It's a good idea to assign
multiple transition sequences to indi-
vidual notes in the Control window,
and then save each group of effects in
a catalogue by copying the Toasty icon
to one of eight Tooltrays. This way,
you can skip the setup next time, and
simply drag a prepared Toasty icon
from a Tooltray to a new track.
You can test your transitions while in
the Control window via the Test but-
ton. When you are satisfied, close the
Control window and click on the Pencil
icon in the Media Madness window.
Now, simply click to add events on the
timeline of your Toasty track. You can
change to a I land icon to move exist-
ing events, an Eraser icon to remove
them, and so on. All the Bars&Pipes
Transport controls are active, so you
can move to the main Track window
and play the events by clicking on the
VCR-like Play, Fast Forward, Rewind,
and Slop buttons. More convenient is
the Mini-Transport window, which you
can summon with the m key. Because
you can synchronize Bars&Pipes w r ith
external devices via SMITE time code,
you can also start and slop Media
Madness tracks externally.
Set For Sound
SunRi/.e's AD516 digital-audio board
with companion Studio 16 2.0 soft-
ware is one source for SMPTE time
code. The AD516 is a 16-bit stereo
card allowing up to eight channels of
simultaneous playback. Its internal
SMPTE time-code reader allows it to
create extensive Cue Lists of samples
tt) trigger to a videotape. The Studio
16 software lets you record, edit, and
play back CD-quality stereo sound.
SunRize and The Blue Ribbon
SoundWorks have collaborated to allow
complete control of the AD5 16 from
within Bars&Pipes. ARexx commands
can also be sent to initiate recording,
load and play samples, and set volume
and panning levels. We'll use the Me-
dia Madness SunRize Virtual Track
toot to integrate the AD516, in con-
junction with Bars&Pipes' Mix Maestro
automated mix-down feature.
Mix Maestro gives you real-time
control over volume and stereo-pan-
ning levels by recording MIDI-control
changes on a track. You can go
through each track in your song,
selling the various levels and stereo
positioning of your instruments to *•
64 May 1993
V I d i; SUITE
optimum levels; the same holds true
for AD516 samples. With the Virtual
Track tool, you can add tracks for a
lead vocal, voice-over, or multitrack
mix down of audio dubbed from
videotape — all synchronized with
MIDI musical events and Toaster
transitions. To illustrate, I'll detail the
steps necessary to coordinate an au-
dio/video transition between two se-
quences — a procedure you might use
several times for a typical production.
Team Effort
Because the Toaster disables multi-
tasking while performing Switcher
effects, the rest of your Bars&Pipes
performance halts during Toaster
transitions. A remedy for this is Stm-
Ri/.e's Toaster Handler, which re-
places your existing AD5 16 device
driver and allows you to play one or
iwn tracks while performing a Toaster
effect. A more powerful approach is to
assemble your final video in two pass-
es, first with Toaster visual transitions
and then with the audio mix. Better
still, you can coordinate two Amigas,
which I'll return to later.
For now, let's assume you have a
video-editing setup that allows you to
record video on one pass and audio on
a second. I use Sony Hi8 Vdecks that I
can control using serial commands sent
by the Command Performance tool.
Blue Ribbon's One-Stop Music Shop
not only gives you 16 channels of 16-
bit multitimbral stereo sound, but also
a MID! interface for attaching a syn-
thesizer keyboard. This frees up the
serial port for triggering the Vdecks or
another Amiga.
A word about SMITE: There are
many ways to record and synchronize
consumer, prosumer, and professional
VCRs. Some machines have an addi-
tional third linear track just for time
code. Others allow you to overdub on
hi-fi tracks without erasing the origi-
nal video, while a common low-end
solution is to use one channel for time
code and the other for a mono mix
down. In all cases the outcome is the
same: SMITE lime code recorded on
a track that triggers Bars&Pipes. I use
the Studio 16 expansion module
SMPTE OutDUtj which employs vour
Amiga to generate time code for
recording on your VCR audio track.
Connect the VCR SMPTE audio out-
put to the AD516 SMPTE-In jack,
which passes the time code on to
Bars&Pipes via the SMPTE accessor)'
module. Bars&Pipes then performs
the song under SMITE control, in
turn triggering MIDI music, Toasty
transitions, and SunRize audio events
when the time code reaches the ap-
propriate points on the timeline.
First, preview and lay down the
visual transition between your two
scenes: a smooth, three-second fade
from source A to source B. Next, add
a Virtual Track tool, designating the
recording start time at the same point
the Toast) effect begins. Just as in a
regular MIDI track for Bars&Pipes
Pro, the Virtual Track tool's track
must be in Record mode and the
Record button in the 'Transport Con-
trols must be set for recording to
occur. Click the Play or Play From
Beginning buttons and record source
A's audio for the three seconds, press-
ing Stop to end recording. Repeat the
same tasks with a second Virtual
Track to record the source B audio. If
you select both I. and R bullous on
the set-up panel, stereo samples are
recorded with the Left sample
panned full left and the Right at full
right. Set both Virtual Tracks for
playback and use Sluclio 16 editing
tools to clean up the samples if needed.
Finally, bring up the Mix Maestro
window, which displays level faders
equal to the total number of tracks in
the performance. Since yon can per-
form a mix down on only one track at
a time, you should first set the source
B volume to and use the Mix Mae-
stro menu's Snapshot selection to set
initial values for the track. Now we'll
begin playing back the tracks, first
fading down the source A audio
where the transition occurs. When
you play il back, you will see that the
fade has been recorded and is auto-
matically performed each time. Next,
fade in source B to complete the
audio dissolve. II you like, add a third
Virtual 'Track, and record a digital
bounce-down of the mix if you need
to save RAM, or just let Mix Maestro
replay the mix as you insert the new
audio on your VCR's audio track(s).
On Automatic
Other Bars&Pipes features let you
configure and store sets of tracks to
automate this procedure. To demon-
strate this, first let's store a Smooth
Fade transition on the C5 note in the
Toasty Hack, and add a Branch Out
tool on the same track (1) in the main
Track window. (Both the Media Mad-
ness and Track windows are active at
the same time; actions taken in one
are mirrored in the other.) The
Branch Out tool sends a duplicate of
each event that enters it down a con-
necting pipe to another pipeline, in
this case our first Virtual Track on
track 2. Add a Merge tool on track 2
to receive the duplicate events, then
double-click on track 2 to enter the
editor. Select Control Change from
the Show menu, choose Control
Change #... in the Display menu and
set the requester to Controller 7, use
the Pencil to draw a fade-in from zero
to full volume, and cut the results to
the Clipboard.
Drag a Loop tool from the 'Toolbox
to track 2, placing it after the Merge
tool, and open the Loop Control
window. Select Paste From Clipboard
from the fool menu to paste the fade-
in changes, and choose Trigger from
the Performance menu. In the Loop
Control window, set the Root note to
C5 (same as the Toasty event). Finally,
add a Branch Out icon after the Loop
tool on track 2, and another Merge
tool on your second Virtual Track on
track 3. Place a Cuntrollnverter tool
after the Merge tool (this turns a
volume Control Change into a 127,
and so on, with a fade out as the re-
sult). Holding the Shift key, click once
on each track to select them, then
choose Save Group from the Croup
menu. Now you have your dissolve
sequence available at any time; Simply
load the grouped tracks, establish the
SMPTE lime where the transition
begins in your 'Toasty track, and set
your Virtual 'Tracks to play the sam-
ples at the appointed time. You can
record new samples in this configura-
tion; the volume control changes are
in effect only during playback.
If you have a second Amiga, you
can install the One-Stop Music Shop
and the SunRize AD516 with
Bars&Pipes and communicate with
your Toaster-equipped machine
through the serial ports via a null-
modem cable. Run the Toaster Re-
ceive utility on the Toaster machine
and set the Local/Remote button to
Remote in the Toasty tool's Control
window. Now you can preview and
perform 'Toaster transitions, SunRize
sample sequencing, and One-Stop
Music Shop MIDI performances si-
multaneously, mixing in one pass to
tape. You can take advantage of re-
portable A/B roll editing to construct
your productions with second-genera-
tion "work prints," then go back when
you've got everythingjust right and
work from your original tapes. ■
Steve GHlmor has produced and directed
films, audio recordings, and radio and
television programs. He enjoys bringing
professional-level technology to his Amiga.
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By Peter Olafson
BREAK OUT THE champagne: We've been waiting for these
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Mindscape International, $39.95) and Epic (Ocean, $49.95),
each in development in Europe For around two years, have fi-
nally turned up in US air space.
Both games are solid and engrossing, each in its own very
different way. But I have to Tess up: Anyone who plays Wing
Commander on a speedy machine first isn't likely to be bowled
over by Epic afterward. Wing Commander will, quite simply,
blow you away.
Wing Commander
WC is a superb translation of Chris "Times of Lore" Robert's
Origin game for the IBM. You're a fighter pilot newly assigned
to the Tiger's Claw — a spaceward version of an aircraft carri-
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called the Kilrathi. You'll fly a range of fighters, each with its
own gifts of destruction, cockpit layout, and lovely array of op-
tions (two types of missiles and guns, afterburners, ejector
seat — the works). You can issue an array of taunts to the ene-
my ("Die, furbaU!") and commands to your wingmen ("Break
and attack") — actually, there are a number of win gwomen as
well — who'll respond on a green-screen monitor. Once you've
fried the last of the "kitties" or cleared a belt of obstacles, you
It's you against the Kilrathi in Wing Commander.
can kick in the autopilot to jump to your next encounter with
a neat side-view cut scene.
Obstacles? You'll play intergalactic dodgeball and 3-D aster-
oids with the Kilrathi proximity mines and asteroid fields. And
watch out for swarms of enemy craft, ranging from pesky gnat-
sized fighters to giant ships of t he line. The ships aren't the poly-
gon constructs used in games like Elite, Starglider, Federation,
or'Xiphos, either. They look like real ships — multicolored and
odd-shaped — and once they're taken a couple of hits against
weak shields, they'll begin lo disintegrate like real ships. A cap-
ital ship looks like a great slab of metal hanging in space, and
nothing blows up as gorgeously as a Kilrathi destroyer, The ex-
Continued on p. 72
We left off last time about two-
thirds of the way through Lure of
the Temptress \Konami, $49.95)
with Mallin offering Diermot a job.
Take it — a job's a job, after all —
and he'!! turn over the book he
wants you to take to Morkus. That
name should ring a bell. (Didn't the
Skorl tell you something nasty
about him when you chatted them
up as Selena?)
So this time, don't do as you're
told. Instead, take the book to the
monks — Toby in particular. (Bet
you were wondering when we'd
get to them.) They'll reward you
and bring you up to date on a par-
ticular dragon— namely, on the
recipe to bring him under your con-
trol. Off to Goewin's herb shop.
CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson
then, to put it together.
Oops. Seems Goewin doesn't
have any cowbane. Ain't it always
this way with recipes in adventure
games? You can find it two ways.
The honest way is to have a talk
with Luthern's voluble old mother
or to send Ratpouch (who's still
hanging around) to do it for you.
The dishonest way is to make a
beeline for the flower bed in front of
the forge. Either way, take the herb
back to Goewin, and she'll make
you a nice herbal milkshake.
You don't know where the drag-
on is, but someone else does. The
subject's come up before in conver-
sation with Grubb (the fellow loung-
ing around In front of the Magpie).
He'll send you off to the Weregate —
which is closed. Great. Thanks for
the sour persimmons, cousin.
However, Ultar at the Severed
Arms is now prepared to mutter
something more useful than his
usual nonsense. He'll name the gar-
goyles who flank the gate, and Fen-
gael and Hammawen will tell you
that they're supposed to let only
women through. (Ultar himself evi-
dently went in drag — lots of cross-
dressing in this game!) You know a
woman — Goewin — and while this
doesn't sound like one of her fav-
orite things, she'll go for it. You res-
cued her, after all. Open sez mei
Hey, new areasl And new puz-
iles. In the first cave beyond the
gate, you'll find two skulls. The
right-hand one opens the way to
the green cave. Look at both skulls
before you move ahead, so Goewin
will know what you're talking about
when you give her this next set of
orders. Instruct her to return to the
first cave, pull the left and then the
right skulls, and return.
On into the blue cave. Pulling the
left skull brings Goewin through, and
once again, you bossy little misogy-
nist, you'll want to send her back to
the green cave to do the the left-right
number with the skulls again to open
Continued on p. 72
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the door into the last cave.
No skulls here, but there is one
mean critter in waiting, Save your
game (this may take a couple of
tries), grab that axe and have at his
midsection. He's about a head taller
than you, but he's slow. Use it to
your advantage and be aggressive.
(I've also seen reports that the over-
head chop method is effective. I
Once the baddie is history, head
into the dragon's lair. Don't muck
about here or your goose will be
cooked, dragon-style. Use your po-
tion immediately, and Diermot's
wish is the big lizard's command,
He'll tell that Selena has been pos-
sessed by a demon and then sur-
render the magical Eye of Gethryn,
which is going to prove very useful
one of these screens. But now it's
sleepy-time for this boy, so take
your leave, using the left skull on
your way out.
You may feel a bit at loose ends
wandering around Turnvale at this
point. I suggest just talking to your
allies, tt seems Luthern's plot isn't
the only one afoot; the Skorl have
a score to settle with Selena as
well. Mallin can put you on to it.
Wait outside the shop in the mar-
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feature. You'll overhear him moan-
ing to proprietor Ewan about the
lack of food and urging him into a
barrel bound for the castle. Once
the Skorl's gone, offer to take
E wan's place. Voila: You're in the
castle basement and into the
endgame.
Note the wine barrel in the left
corner. You can't actually do much
here at the moment, so visit the
kitchen, Here you'll find some fat (in
the eareassl, some tongs (close by|,
and a malleable young 'un named
Minnow. Back in the cellar, use the
tongs to puil the bung from the bar-
rel, and now have Minnow tell his
boss that there's someone in the
cellar. This has the benefit of being
true. The Skorl are all drunken louts
at heart, however, and this one will
slurp up the wine and fail asleep.
(Naturally, you'll want to be as in-
conspicuous as possible while this
is going on. The cellar's right corner
should do nicely.)
Don't throw Minnow back just
yet. Now you just have to find Se-
lena, and you'll need his help again.
Across the dining room, you'll find
a gatehouse with some rusty ma-
chinery. The fat should prove a
good lubricant for that lever; have
Minnow pull it as you turn the
winch. This lowers the drawbridge
and opens the path to Selena.
Oh, dear. There's one more
thing. There's this other critter on
the bridge, so save your game and
have at it again, using the same ba-
sic moves as in the caves. Then
press on to the left and let nature
(and the end animation) take its
course. It's a rather neat bit. I guess
the title had a point after all, eh?
That's it for this issue. Next time,
as promised, we'll visit one of the
shadow lands. I just haven't decid-
ed which; Shadowlands itself or
Shadow of the Beast III.
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V, A M E
PRESERVE
SHORT TAKES By Peter Olafson
ZOOL
UChess
Giger-Tetris
The first AGA games have started to trickle in, and as you might ex-
pect, they're a rather mixed lot. The first commercial offering is an en-
hanced version of Gremlin's Zool (about $35). He's the ninja ant who runs
around zapping blobs and picking up sweets. |He's an ant, after a'l.j It's
a grand old platform game of the sort practiced by Mario and Sonic, with
sticky fingers in lieu of the former's inveterate cuteness and the latter's
demonic speed. The graphics, while good, are a little too childish for my
taste — the poster and stickers enclosed with the game give away the in-
tended audience— but it's also a bit tougher than standard platform fare.
If you already have the original Zool, I wouldn't bust a gut racing to feed
this to your A1200. The changes seem to be only cosmetic: elabor-ate
backdrops where none existed before (which have the effect of better
camouflaging the game's critters), more music, and the same play as the
original.
Roger Uzun's freeware UChess (widely available) is very pretty, keeps
getting better (the latest is version 2.25), and boasts a creditable record
against reputable, commercial chess games. Trouble is, its system re-
quirements are a bit on the video workstation side — 10 megs for the full-
blown "L" version and four for the standard version. How about a two-meg
version for us Idiot's Mate specialists, Rog?
Finally, there's Giger-Tetris, which I've found (as TETRIS.DMS) only on
The Forge, an excellent BBS in the Kingston, Ontario area. It's from a Dan-
ish shareware outfit called Panic Productions and is a glossy version of the
classic falling-block game with one of the Swiss artist's alien-woman-in-
black-scuba-gear paintings as the playfield backdrop. Just the thing to
play during a break from Darkseed. And stylish, too.
The Addams Family
It's showtime! Look out behind you, Mario. Gomez is creeping up. The
leader of this odd brood wears the same crazy, devil-may-care grin
throughout the game. It's as though he's having fun, and well he should.
This Ocean production (S49.95) — inspired by, but not truly based on, the
inane movie — is light, frothy stuff: huge levels, tons of secret areas, inter-
esting challenges in jumping and swimming, and immediate access to
many regions via the central stairway of this ramshackle house. At the
same time, it's all a bit spartan and broadly drawn for this sort of game,
and I suspect more could have been done with backgrounds and sprites.
Populous II: The Challenge Games
Were this data disk from Electronic Arts simply a bunch of extra worlds
to take over in Populous II, this review would begin and end with one sen-
tence: More of Populous II. To be sure, 500 very nice new worlds have been
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Will the AGA machines send the A50Q hobbling off to the
home for hi-tech has-beens? Also, CD-ROMs . . . and Fish.
The A500: Still Fierce,
or Fading Fast?
Q. As an A500 owner, I am concerned -with
its future, given the recent releases of the
A600 and A1200. Will the A 500 fade into
oblhnon, much as the A IOOO? Should 1 get
one of the new machines?
Joseph I mi ia III
Carpentersville, IL
A. Last month, I fielded common ques-
tions I've received from A2000 and
A3000 owners who've wondered if the
A4000 meant the demise of their ma-
chines. A500 owners — who, incidental-
ly, constitute the bulk of our reader-
ship — share these concerns, especially
in regard to the A 1200.
Reliable sources indicate that Com-
modore is no longer producing the
A500 — no big deal, really, thanks to
third-party hardware companies whose
economic well-being hinges on the
A50G market. In short, third-party
companies are ensuring a long-term
Future for the machine. Additionally,
classified computer ads bloom
throughout the year with A500 listings,
providing sources for parts.
I never lire of telling A500 owners
that they have the basic Framework for
not only a fiercely fast computer, bill
also one nothing else can touch at near
the price. My well-documented opinion
{see our cover story in June '92) heavily
favors excavating the ASOO's stock
68000 internals in favor of something
of the 68030 persuasion.
While the following hardly consti-
tutes a comprehensive list of upgrade
products, here arc some proven ideas:
For around S500, vou can breathe new-
life into your existing A5O0 system with
a Cev Design XPander Chassis (SI 29)
and add Zorro II slots to it in the
process, or choose ICD's Trifecta 500
EC (S299) and add a low-cost IDE-type
hard-drive controller. Loosen the wal-
let a bit more and opt for ICD's 5001.X
(S349) to give your A500 SCSI drive
compatibility. Whichever combo you
By Tim Walsh
order, an AmigaDOS 2.1 upgrade kit
($99 with ROMs. $49 without) is a
must. You could round out a sensible
upgrade with either a low-cost (SI 99)
Supra Turbo 28 68HC000 or Preferred
Technologies" Blizzard Board (S259),
for roughly a two-fold increase in pro-
cessing speed.
For less than $1000, vou can up-
grade big-time, and turn your A500
into a barn-burner with a Commodore
A570 CD-ROM (S499) coupled with a
CSA Derringer 030 (S249), or a GVP
530 Turbo 40 MHz '030 accelerator
equipped with a 120MB hard drive
($949). For S 1295, you could pull out
all the slops and install a 28 MHz
68040, as in the 040/500 from Progres-
sive Peripherals.
Upgrading to the AI200 as an alter-
native to hopping up the A500 is pttre-
Iv a personal decision. Bv the time vou
read this. Commodore may have end-
ed their Power L'p program for the
A1200 (termination date: March 31,
'93). There's no official decision (yet)
to extend this program, which, for
$599, got you the A1200 with a copy of
EA's DPaint W and Softwood's Final
Copy word processor. It's not the
08020-based performance of the
A I 200 that sets it apart from the A500,
since the older machine can be made
to outperform the newer one by leaps
and bounds. Rather, the AGA graphics
and Workbench 3.0 combination on
the A1200 make it the most attractive,
low-cost computer currently available.
However, if someone builds an AGA
chip-set adapter for ihe A500. . ,
Fishing For CD-ROMs
Q. Uist year, a company advertised the
entire Fred Fish collection of freely distrib-
utable files on one CD-ROM for S50. What
is the name of the company? Now that more
Amiga CD-ROMs are available. I'm ready
to make Ihe leap.
Donald Lipman
Highland Park, IL
A. The company is HyperMedia Con-
cepts (5200 Washington Ave., Suite
226, Racine, Wl 53406, 414/632-3766).
For those unfamiliar, the Fred Fish
collection has been around since, well,
since forever, and now numbers over
800 disks. With the whole collection on
one CD-ROM, it sure sounds like a
eosl-efleelive media investment to me.
If you have a modem and a network
account, however, you can also access
the entire Fred Fish collection on line,
since the series' disks are available
through both Portal and OF.nic. There
are two reasons why it's preferable to
access it on line: First, it requires only a
few moments to search for a disk
(they're sequentially numbered) that
contains a particular file or subject
matter that you're seeking. "Ihe second
reason is, while a CD-ROM can't be
updated (you have to buy new ones as
they're released), on line offerings are
updated frequently. Almost as soon as a
new disk is added to the collection, it
becomes available on line. The on-line
way seems like an attractive alternative
to buying the collection on CD-ROM.
Finally, I'd like to pass along an
inexpensive way to add a CD-ROM to
any Amiga system: CDTV. While I
haven't tried it, I've been told the
Commodore CDTV units, which are
easy to acquire through authorized
dealers and are now being sold at
drastically reduced prices, double well
as CD-ROM players. Connect ihe
CDTV to your Amiga via each ma-
chine's parallel port and use Software
Distilleiy's freely distributable Parnel
networking software and your Amiga to
access the data on CD-ROMs in the
CD'IV device. (And, when you're done
computing, if ihe CD'IY is cnnnccied
to your sound system, you can slip in a
music CD and sit back and enjoy your
favorite tunes!) ■
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VOlt: imagine Enhancer • ~3D converts Imagine objects to
O-F. NFF. VORT, Raysnade MtF. DXF and PDV lormats.
VOiO: Imagine Enhancer- ICoans arid ISL supplement the
object and scene editors
FDfi6: UChofti: The strongest playirvg Chess program avail-
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FDSd; Grime 8 1 Pttiuio PacMan :i& better lhan the onginaS--
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WB123AB: Flags ol the World - same as above, but lor 1.3
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WB122: System Optimizer - KCcmmodily enhances your
system, gives memory meters, mouse 'keyboard enhance-
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REorg will optimize hard and floppy-disks lor a big speed
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drivo space for virtual memory! (Req 63030- w/MMU.) All
programs rwjuirn 2 0-
WB121: ProPagol Enhancer- This disk contains OVW 40
"Gomes" tor use with ProPaga 3.0. including useful cries like
Make Pie Chan and Resure test to fit Box to name a lew Also
includes structured & bitmap ciipart tor unique borders a must
nave tor at PPage 3 users.
WB120: Grinder - a como.e:e graphics conversion package
thai supports GIFs, JPeg, Neochrome. Degas-, PCX Taiga,
TlfF, HAM-E and IFF format pictures
0091 : PerBench ■ Allows you to easily connect network two
Amlgas/CDTVs lorjuthai and share stoinge devices Req's
WB2.+ and cusloni cable (docs to make cable included- -easy |.
OD9Q: Advanced Utilities - Compress Disk doubles Ihe
capaoiy ot your hard -dnve on ttie try witn compression'! 1 Also
contains: disk optimizer SCSI mount utility. Keymap edtofs.
Enforcer. Undeleter i more Most programs require 2 0-,.
Fun Disks/
FDS: GAMES! - This Disk is chock full cl games including;
Checker. Clgo. Gold ■ A new slide the pieces puttie. Jeopard
■ An enhanced vetsion ot Risk RushHour - Surprisingly addict-
ing, and SpaceWnr Best described as a gross between
Ccmbai-Tanks and asteroids
FD7; Pacmsn - This dish contains severnl pacfnain type
games including. PacMans?. UaieVan and Zontx.
FD10: HackLHs - A duncteon adventure gajne Considefed a
must-have das&ic. This is tne 2nd release of thss gams Great
graphic interlace. Play time several weeks 1
FD11: Las Vegas and Card Games - Las Vegas Craps - The
Deal Las Vegas Craps simuialion every wrriten lor any com-
puter Contains extensive HELP features. Also Thiny-
Ona.Vide oPofcer and mora. ^^^^
DDB3: IBM ■ Not one, but two ISM emulator* thai wiijutow
tt» rurwinB ol MS-OOS Mtrwai* wtft Amtgn proo/amim
Comes cqmpl#l« with pfOffr.^ "QB floppy
drrves pud 720K IBM eompa&ya dnvas
FDi2A.FDi2B:Siar Trek. The Game This is oy far Tie best
Star Trek game evet wnllen lor any computer. II leatufes
mouse control, good graphics, digllized sound effects and
great gameplay Counts as 2 disks. Req, 1 Mb and two drives
(or hd>,
FD13: Board Games - contains Monopoly. Dominoes.
Paranoids and olnsis
FD14: Dungeon Hntir Hints and Arcade Games DM
maps, spells ilem location and hints and more also on this
disk. Hbalt ■ an arkanrxl breakout type game, tin - a On type
Clone
FDl 7: Educational Games - This disk tnciudes se*&ra games
Joh" youngsters including geography, math. SDonce. and word
games, also includes Wheel ot Fortune.
FD20: Tactical Games - MecnForce; A game thai simulates
combai between, rwo or moie ciant robols Simple woius cant
begin to give you Ihe feel ct piloting a 30 - 40 fool lall, 'Ire
breathing, eanh shaking cofossus that obeys your every whim
FD27: Arcade Gam** - This dish is loaded with sorre great
games. Includes, Raceorama a greal racing car game with ten
different courses, MmiBlasi a helicopter gunshtp type clone.
Shark in the same dass as frogger. and SBreakout the ongmaJ
b'eakoul with more
FD29: Shoc-fem up's WWM - you're ihe pilot ot a WWII
plane flying through enemy territory, you've ]usl been spotted.
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good luck on you mission, SpyKilMr try and penetrate Onomy
lines with this game, and Relalialor - anoiher gro.il game
FD3t: Games! ■ Air Traffic Control ■ a good ATC simulailon.
Black Jack Lab - a lull featured set of card games, ChessTet •
play chess witn your Inend m distant and remote places with
this game ano a modem, labynmn ■ a wed done text adventure
game (like an tnfocom game], and MouSOTrap - a 3d ma2€
game.
WB105AB: Workbench 2+ Extras #2
This set contains ihe programs mat should have been
included wlih WB2* These powoiiul utilises, take lull
advanloge ol ihe many new capabiltiefl that are avarla&io in
Workbench 2-, Includes Tod Manager - a wonderlul ulili-
ty to add programs to your TOOL menu. Virus Protection -
Dwjtader Icon - Enhances Workbench's *Shew ATT to dis-
p^a^crvw JOdatinaiccnstodiheyeorTipeso.' Stes. Bitmap
Font Editor. Screen Stswera - ata, fradats and spfeners and
swarming bees' Requester Enhancers and CPUBfit. Two
dtk set. counts as two.
F032: Flight Simulator - An mstiunen! flight simulator lor a
DC H).
FD33: Arcpdc Games - Flreddy & M.iriu BiOlheiS type Of
game. Cioibls a target practice game. PipeLine a German
inlerpietation of Pipe Dreams Iron a Ughl cycles version, and
Weirds a wonderful version of asteroids with a hilanous twtet
FD3.5: Omega (v 1.3) - An outstanding dungeon and outdoors
adventure game in a similar vein as hack, rouge, and mona
Thts version is considerably taster and better that all previous
versions Playtime weeks
FD38: Games - CnObage Master ■ A greal criabage game and
tutor, Spades a well done card came, ChineseCheckeis - A
computer version ol this classic. Pul2 • a Slide piece puulu
game and construction wt
FD39ASB: Slsr Tiek, The Niw Gnreraiion - This i£ a Cam
plelely rjitf&ren! version of Star Trek than mat found on FDt2
This one was created by the German author Tobias
Excellent 1 ' 1 ' Courts as two disks. Requires 51 2k
FD50: Submarine Game - Sealance. one and a half years in
ifo making, this is an outstanding submarine lactical game
Commercial quality, htghly recommended
FOS7: Arcade Games - Includes 2 truly commercial quality
games MegaBall. an Arkanoid ish game, leatures 5 musical
scores and addicting gamepl.iy Gravity Attack is a psychadel-
llc t'ip through several dillerent worlds— each different
FD59: Game Potpourri ■ Xenon lit is an almost exact clone ol
the comrne'ciai game ot the same name, a great shootemup
Crossword will take lists ot words & automatically generate
word-search puzzles lor any Epson compatible printer
fMO: Game* - in Nebula, race Ovar a 3d world to destroy
enemy installations. Imerleroni; a gregf Or Mario clone
Enigma, is it a game cr puzzle?
FDOIl Games • Solitaire; great graphics, plays two versions
Klido; an inlerestmg piece ol eye candy ExtfomO Violence; 2
player kill or be killed game. VATC. A Toins done wWl AVnlleal
Intelligence Genesis; create realistic 3d fractal worlds
FD62: PomPom Gunner. An eitremeiy smooth and well done
World War II gunner simulalion Requires 1 megabyte ol
-■:- :.-,
FOS4: Games - Wiiiy's Ouesl - a "great" 53 level game wflh.
greal graphics. Cubus - a 3-dimensionai Terns type game
(rotate and move in 3 dimensions!. H-uske-r Du - Colors and
pattern rather man shape in this Tolns-epque gamg; S screens
and 3 lovels ol difficulty Requires Fat Agnus (1 Meg ol Chip)
FD67: Arcude ■ Includes Llomotrc-n a well-done Robotron"
clone Hate is a 'lerillic' Zaxxon clone with multiple
lewels worlds and smooth dirtgonai scrolling a io 1
FD69: MlnflQames ■ Had enough ol shoot em up games'
Rela> and kit these 21 games agarose your mind instead ol
your wrist
FD71A&B: Star Trek: TNG Trivia Challenge ■ So you think
you know Tne Next Generation, huh? Complele with fantastic
sampled sounds and digitized images, this game even looks
3nd sounds like a genuine Star Trek luminal! VERY thc-rOugh
and complete 1 Counts as 2 disks
FD73: Arcade Series Intruder Alert! is a WULTlfevel
'Berserk" clone. Features smooth gameptay. great graphics *
csgtfUed sound i •
FD74; Arcade Series ■ FlmgWaf is an "OutBf UaUta dofM
with vectorized graphics MotherLode is a "Lode Runner'
cfone with 50 tenets! In BtiuTflr**, Ihey'ie coming at you liom
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caund as Wee
FD7S; Arcade Series - Descender is a clone of tne classic
arcade game "Tempest"; complele with vecloiiZed graphics
Tanx is the classic battle or trajectories and inertia between
two tanks— incredibly well donel Search is a maza game
unlike any other — included is a level editor too (Tamt requires
1 meg chip rnemory=Fat Agnus)
FD77: Arcade Series - Galaga'92 U a done ol the arcade
game with several gameplay enhancements -with smooooth.
sharp giaphcs. US bener than the original' Pharaohs Curse ra
a clone p! Ihe original C64 classic Cplomacy is a Deautifulty
computerized version of the Aval'on |ffj board game-n^snquer
or be conquered i
FD81 : SupcrGames - Some of !ho best games-Donkey Kong
is better than ihe original w.\h an eifra levst 1 . Frantic Freddie
and TtailBlazer are boih fast-paced arcade games. Mad
Bomber is the classic game of "Kaboom" redone with an Amiga
flare AH of these games are excellent 1
FD32: Intrepid ■ In the Arctic ice. you control a tank on a mis-
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Workbench Disks /
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program
WB6: Fonts «2 ■ ShowFonr allows you lo quickly and
painlessly vew all 2S& characters in a typ-ca! font Includes
large Amiga Dos syslom tonts (many up lo 5£pts|
WB7: Clip Art This disk ls loaded witn crack and white cl-p
art. Art includes, trees, watches, loots. US and SUM maps
and more
WB9: Icons - Truly a multitude of various types and kinds.
Also indudes IconMiestar, IccnLab. and others groat utilities to
help generate icons
WB10: Virus Killers - The best: VirusX(JO), Kv(2 1], and
ZeroVifL-s 111
WBi 2. Disk Utilities ■ Thus great desk <s loaded with wonderful
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drivers (including HP LaserJet 3S4I), also includes a printer-
driver generator.
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spoil checker.
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produce awesome pictures ol objects one could turn en a
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can draw. Now compatible with most 3D packages, and
VSceen ■ makes a virtual screen anywhere
WBZ5:Educallon#l - On this o.s* are two programs that can
generate maps of d«finrmg types, World Data Base uses the
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global coordinates Also Paradox a greal cemc-nslratlon ol
Albert Einslem General Theory Of Relativity
WB26: Disk Utilities #2 Mr Backup. KwickBackup - two well
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WB27: Nagel - 26 Patrick Nagel pictures ol beautiful women,
WB29: Graphics and Sound - This disk has several different
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h/afidel'croi and Tmandei ■ two fast rnandebfoi generators,
also Mosira - the best IFF display program to date Sound - a
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WB33:Circuil Board Design - several terrific routines !or the
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- create 3d .animations preserves paBet and Wo/kJ3d ■ a demo
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WB37; Educational Educational games and puzzles mat
cover math geography, spelling, and books Ages 6 ■ 15
WB38: Plotting end Graphics Plotxy is a powerful full fea-
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Computer Aided Drafting program, very full featured.
Tesselalor - a program Ihat herps generates fartasnc looking,
recursive M.C. Ecsher type pictures
W841: Music - MED an incredibly well done, full featured
music editor Create your own slunning music directly on your
tne Amiga Similar lo SourtdTratker but better Very powerful
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W843: Business - Tn<s disk contains AnalytCalc ■ proOaMy
the most powerful spreadsheet program on the Amiga. A fuD
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WB47: Clip Art ■ Hires clip art ktotits - hair, dialling, summer,
animals and macfood
WB4B: Clip Art - HrTH "I P art Motifs - Hnldays. music medi-
cal, artdmrsc.
W950: Antm*tlon Seven o' the best egropean style anima-
tions or 'Demos' including scientific 451, subway (iUS
entrant, also our tavsrile}, sunnde. thrstdemn Inighl waves,
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WB53; Graphics Saytradrsg programs generate absolutely
stunning realistic looking panes, rockets, build ngs . and sur-
real images C-Light is the mc-sl powerful EASY-TO-USE Of
it's kind we have seen lo date This is easily better and more
full featured, lhan similar commercial programs celling in the
hundreds of do-ilais Also, sMovie - a lull teamed video text
titter similar lo ProVideo. Broadcast Title- Great video
scrolling, w pes, speoal eifects. and mcie
WB54: Printing TNf disk contains sever a i -cutines to help
wilh the chore of printing. Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner
printer for the PD! Pnn|5tud.o -a, well implemented all-purpose
printer- utility wilh a very comfortable graphic interface and
many advanced features, Ula - with ease, print ASCII files to a
PostScript pnnler, and more.
WEISS; Application - XCcpylll - a lull featured disk copier
make backups ol copy proiacted disks RoadRoute - find the
rjuickesl route Irom one Pt< to another highway description
Included Diary - a diary program l-ke "Dougy Houser M □*, Cal
■ a calendar program, l/agman ■ a database tailorec lo^ arl-
cies and publications
WB57; Animation ■ Tnis eisfc has r .[-vin.-il Dc-mo siyla ;in
mations. Including. Slitter. Lolly. SunS. vertigo, vonex, and
xenomorph
: Font Sjet This coifecflcfn camera over 100
s witis Professional Page.-'Psge Seller 3- o-
n Z.1 +, These forms nltl output to any =aser prtntor
or oci miyix printer with no jaggtee, ihenAs to outl^e lonts
V«ypro-kXfc,ng. S diSkSSt flJurtts SS-t
Wfl62r Midi Utilities • Several useful midi u!. sties mduding.
programs to transfer io anc irom several music programs to
midi. a ni:di sysex handler, a midi recorder wilh limebase. dis-
play mid< info, file sequence player, and a few scores
WB63 : Disk Utilities #3 - Several highly recommended pro-
grams to aid in removing duplicate dies from your hard drive,
performing tile backups, S-nary editing, last formatting, tile
recovery disk track recovery, and forced d=sk validation o! cor-
-_:M :: ' -
WVB&5: Icon* «* Lot's pf neai icons. Also, several wonderful
progiams tna! to let you Create your own icons, modily and
- | -..:•■ i . .!■-! - J j -i.,;! ,->■ -
WBefl: Muilc ■ SO minutes Ol classical and modern eectronic
music lor you Amiga.
WB75; Music ■ Over 100 instruments lilas [ msl) and sample
sound ' --'. ( &s)
V/B79: Home & Business Accounting - Includes Ckbacct -
the most complete checkbook accounting program going.
LCDCalc - this well done calculator has a very large display
and operates from the keyboard or mouse. Mileage master ■
monitor your automobile mileage with this mileage log.
Grammar - a grammar checker, and WorldTime ■ find out what
lime it is m up to SO global otes
W08 1 : Great Applications OalaEaby a very easy to UH,
database program Don! lei ihe ease of use tool you, this Is a
very lull featured database program including full printer control
lor add'flss labels and mail merge applications Also includes,
TypeTut a good typing tutor. RLC a full leatufed label printer.
Banner, a multi-lnnt banner maker, and Budget a homo
accounting m a program Highly recommended
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Canwta/Mcvico add5-!5ei,.wtwf ran:ipiaddS-5L>ia.
W882; ftnimattons ■ Four tal length, well done "move" style
animaiionj Including. Coyote. Juggieru, GhostPool. i
Mechamx 2 disks, counts as i
WB93; Workbench 1.3 Estras 92 This disk contains :he uMi-
tier; that Commodore should have shipped with the Amiga;
VirusX4.D. Snap, FliDlsk [recover cortupi,' deleted dies). Dish
Optimizer (floppy & hard). Machlil (screen blanker, hotkey,
mouse accol . macro, clock utility!, GOMF (a guruDuster hand
PnnlSludKJ
WB95: Checkbook Accountant 2,1 - This is definitely com
marcsal grade, we ve seen many checkbook programs and this
is absolutely the best Full budgeting, transaction ie:ording
and report generation.
WBG6: Dupcrs Contains Xcopylll 6 NiO which will backup
copy -protected programs. FreeCopy rernowa copy protection
from several programs, anc SuporDuper will crank-out fast
AmigaOOS copies
WBM; Lifestyles Includes A Gene — Inmily tree program that
tracks up to 600 peoples ainages/oic Landscape is a CAD
program to create gardens. landscapes Loom simulates an 8
harness loom, experiment with pattern design with instani
feedback
WB102: Telecommunications - Coniains the programs
NComm 2 and VTtOG-2SB Zmcdem protocols, XPR proto-
col suppon. lull VT100 emufaSon MComm's scnpl language is
so powerful it can create a luii-leatured BBS system
WBI 06: Home Manager - This is a great all-in-one address
book with an a utodialer notepad lo-do list appointment sehod-
uterhome Inventory database and phone number dialer.
WBI 08: OctaMED - This breaktnrough program doubles your
Am>ga s sound capacities from a channels to an ear-popping
B channels 1 All the rewound edit ng cip.tP MM ol MED plus J
mote channels 1 If you thought your Amiga sounded good
before you ami heard nuthin' yet 1
WBI IB: Amiga Beginner - Vpu usU'd for #t A compiele
tutorial lot tiiu beginner on using tt>e Arrhga Slarts you off at
the pcwei-swilch ana" takas. you inrounli to the CU/StaH and
ay poiniu in between Secu5 f Alio included are ic-coior
icons to replace erenr icon in yoW 2,0+ Workbench.
WB1Q9: VerseWise - D.spiay se.irch and print TFe New
~,
WB1 13: Sid It ■ Why pay 40 bucks ic a directory utility, when
this one w»l do it all plus; much more 1 A truly professional-cal-
iber program. Sid 1 was our best, now eompfereVy rewritten.
Sid 2 will astound you.
WB114: Fonts §A - Contains 36 bitmap system fonts
WB1 15: Telecommunication - II you have AmigaDOS 2 !.:■■: ■
and a modem, then this Is THE program for you Term totally
conforms to the User Interface Style Guide lor 2-.Q4 has an
ARorn port, and Supports il popular lile-lransfer protocols
through XPR libraries We w>sh all programs were this good
WB116: Databases - This is what you ve been waitmg lori
Contains 5 uniquety specialized database programs lor track-
ing: Videotapes, CD's. Magazine Art'des. Comic Books and
Trading Cards 1
Dev Disks/
DD54: Compression - This disk is loaded with all of the besl
lile compression programs and a-ds lor the Amiga Many ol Ihe
programs can be used by the new user indudes Arc, Lrwc,
Lhwarp. Pfcax PoworPacker a must have by alF. Zip. Warp,
and Zoo Also IFFeruncn an excellent compression lor IFF
hies
DD71AB: C Compiler ■ This disk contains DICE, Matthew
Dillon's full lealur&d powerlul C compiler & environment. 2
disks, counts as %-
DD8G: The Piogrammer - Includes GadToois and REOTools
which will allow you to creale your user Interfaces and then the
program will automatically geneiate 'C source code or
Assembly-code Requires, and writes code 'or. Am^aCOS?-
ODB9: UEdll • Probably she most powerful text editor ever
written tor the Amiga Prevousty commercial now public
domain Req 1 MB
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LightWave 3D Modeler team how easy 3D moa-%^
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Understanding S-VHS New Release! What S-
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Video Signals and the Toaster New Release!
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Killer Graphics: Real Time Solutions With
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DPainl IV Video Guide in Saddleback Grapics
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Advanced Techniques with DeluxePaint IV
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Brian Berg, who runs the multimedia
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Slightly Off Key
I was distressed to find that Gene
Hamm's "Music of the Spheres" (Mar.
'93, p. 5'5) was slightly tarnished. Al-
though his circle of fifths fit me like a
glove, a technical error in the diagram
left me composing some highly unusu-
al chords,
A few days alter reading die article, I
showed ni)- choral director Hanmi's
article. She thumbed through the
pages, tried a few chords on the circle
and shook her head, saving, "This is
wrong." 1 was crestfallen.
As it turns nut, the diagrams of the
circle of fifths were misdrawn. The
positions of B Hat and E flat in the
major chord progression in the outer
rings of the diagrams should have been
reversed. They should read C, F, B Hat.
E flat, A Hat, and so on. Having made
this switch, Mr. Hamm's theory once
again fit like a glove.
Brian Metcalf
Sandy Hook, Connecticut
We've received a bunch of letters about this
problem. Several professional musicians
also expressed dismay thai the article seemed
to suggest that the Amiga could make you a
composer "whether you know anything
about music or not." While we staled up-
front that it was for "people who want to
create music on the Amiga, but know little
about music composition," whether you're a
novice or a professional, B flat isn't E flat,
and vice versa. Our apologies. — Eds
Losing Some Zip
In the March On-line Scan section,
Tim Walsh referred to several archival
programs, one of which was PKAZip.
AW readers should know that P.K.Ware
will no longer be supporting the Ami-
ga. Yep, PKAZip 1.0 is the first and last
version of the program for the Amiga,
according to the message I got through
P.K.Ware's BBS. It's too bad, too, be-
cause PKAZip is one of the best archival
programs ever written for the .Amiga. I
hope revisions will come from other
programmers so Amiga users such as
myself can continue to take advantage
of the thousands of "ZEPped" programs
available on UBSs.
Mark A. Tomany
Minooha. Illinois
Keep Carving, CBM
While some see the introduction of a
new line of Amigas as creating a con-
fusing list of options, I see the new
machines as welcome additions from a
company determined to cane out a
sizable niche in the marketplace. Even
the bookstore in my town now shelves
The A4000 is well suited
for use in scientific
laboratories as an
instrument controller and
in tdti media workstation.
two Amiga-specific magazines (Amiga-
World and Amazing Computing), which I
consider a step — no matter bow
small — in the right direction.
Jim Heffenian
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We think it's a giant step! (But gee, Jim,
did you hove to go and mention that other
magazine by name?) — Eds
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Recently I read an interesting survey
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and engineers who responded claimed
the Amiga as their computer of choice.
(I was one of them, incidentally.)
The A4000 is well suited for use in
scientific laboratories as an instrument
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This is important in an area where
technical, abstract information needs
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presented in an easily understandable
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We need AWs continued support to
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James J. Yuzwalk
Livonia, Michigan
Still the One
In your February Overscan piece on
the CyberArts conference, Patric
I ledlund claims thai most multimedia
development and applications are for
the Mac. I've been selling multimedia
products to studios, including Disney
and Warner Bros., for quite a while (all
the major platforms), and 1 can tell you
that the Amiga is still easily the leader
in multimedia. Quick Time for the Mac
doesn't even come close to the profes-
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Adam Strange
Valley Village, California
1 1 'hat Mr. Hedlmid said was that most
American multimedia divelopers use a Sili-
con Graphics workstation or a Macintosh,
but he preceded the statement with John
Donovan's point that the Amiga, because of
its "inherent architectural advantages,"
among other things, made it "the power
platform for the future of multimedia. "
Is It in the Cards?
Your February editorial, "Commo-
dore Users al llie ( Crossroads." forecasts
what I think most high-end Amiga
owners want: AGA for the A2000 and
A3000. An AGA card would be a total
winner. For Amiga owners who can't
afford lo upgrade to an A4000 it would
seem to be the logical next step.
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